Classics Research Seminar on Fire, Water, Earth: Stories of Guardian Dragons in Classical Literature presented by Elicia Penman, MPhil confirmation.
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Friday, 28 August 2015
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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- Room E303 Forgan Smith Building
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Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)
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- The dragon is an image that is common to many different mythological and cultural traditions. The goal of this paper is to trace the origins of this cross-cultural topos through the Greco-Roman literary tradition. The dragon is presented in many different faces, from fierce guardians to peaceful healing gods, taking his most identifiable form, that of a dragon, to monsters plaguing the earth. In form they are generally fantastically-sized serpents, later having limbs and other features from different creatures added to give them a form very similar to the iconic image of the dragon today. Their biggest role is that of the protector and guardian, which will be the core theme of this paper. This idea relates to the image of the dragon as a whole as it changes the perspective of this monstrous beast, which as a guardian is mostly peaceful unless threatened. This is one section of a dissertation that will also examine dragons in healing practices and how the Greco-Roman dragon influenced the development of the Medieval and Christian dragon.
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