Re: [tied] Re: Medieval Dragons, dog/snake, Greek Dragons

--- Jo�o_Sim�es_Lopes_Filho <jodan99@...>
wrote:

> I took a look at Theogony, and at least two
> creatures are described as
> "drakontes": The snake-head of Khimaira, and Typhon.
> And Typhon's eyes emit
> flames [(...} he:n hekaton kephalai ophios, deinoio
> drakontos, glo:sse:si
> dnophere:si lelikhmotes. ek de oi osso:n thespesie:s
> kephale:sin hup'
> ophrysi pyr amaryssen. paseo:n d' ek kephaleo:n pyr
> kaieto
> derkomenoio.(...)) .
> For me it confirms Piotr's argument. So, we can
> define a drakon as a
> monstruous serpent with fire-glowing eyes.

*****GK: More as above in your description of
Tiphoeus. The Perseus translation of Hesiod has his
hundred "snake" heads flashing fire + "fire burned
from his heads as he glared". The original "drakon"
(in Greek myth) thus swooshes fire from his eyes
rather than his nostrils or his mouth (yet as to
Chimaera the transl. is that it was "breathing forth a
fearful blast of blazing fire".) I wonder whether this
indicates that Tiphoeus is an older imagined monster
than Chimaera.*****

>
> Joao SL
> Rio

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