The Serpent Column : a cultural biography /

"The Serpent Column, a bronze sculpture that has stood in Delphi and Constantinople, today Istanbul, is a Greek representation of the Near Eastern primordial combat myth: it is Typhon, a dragon defeated by Zeus, and also Python slain by Apollo. The column was created after the Battle of Plataia...

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Main Author: Stephenson, Paul (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Series:Onassis series in Hellenic culture.
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