Dragons

 

The dragons of Greek mythology were serpentine monsters. They include the serpent-like Drakons, the marine-dwelling Cetea and the she-monster Dracaenae. Homer describes the dragons with wings and legs.

• The Colchian Dragon, an unsleeping dragon which guarded the Golden Fleece

• Cychreides, a dragon which terrorised Salamis before being slain byCychreus

• Demeter's dragons, a pair of winged dragons that drew Demeter's chariot and, after having been given as a gift, Triptolemus's

• Giantomachian dragon, a dragon that was thrown at Athena during the Giant war. She threw it into the sky where it became the constellation Draco

• Lernaean Hydra, also known as King Hydra, a many-headed, serpent-like creature that guarded an Underworld entrance beneath Lake Lerna. It was destroyed by Heracles, in his second Labour. Son of Typhon and Echdina.

• The Ismenian Dragon, a dragon which guarded the sacred spring of Ares near Thebes; it was slain by Cadmus

• Ladon, a serpent-like dragon which guarded the Golden apples of immortality of the Hesperides

• Maeonian Drakon, a dragon that lived in the kingdom of Lydia and that was killed by Damasen

• Medea's dragons, a pair of flying dragons that pulled Medea's chariot. Born from the blood of the Titans

• Nemean dragon, a dragon that guarded Zeus' sacred grove in Nemea

• Ophiogenean dragon, a dragon that guarded Artemis' sacred grove inMysia

• Pitanian dragon, a dragon in Pitane, Aeolis, that was turned to stone by the gods

• Python, a dragon which guarded the oracle of Delphi; it was slain by Apollo.

• Rhodian dragons, serpents that inhabitied the island of Rhodes; they were killed by Phorbus

• Thespian dragon, a dragon that terrorized the city of Thespiae inBoeotia

• Trojan dragons, a pair of dragons sent by Poseidon to kill Laocoön and his sons in order to stop him from telling his people that the Wooden Horse was a trap.

• Three-Headed Hydra, it is believed, as the offspring of the Lernaean Hydra, are multiple-headed aquatic and very poisonous dragons, like their father, more heads will grow by cutting one off.