The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography by Paul Stephenson

The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography

Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture

Paul Stephenson

304 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art classics history challenging informative medium-paced
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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...

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