 | John Ellard Gore - Astronomy - 1894 - 382 pages
...the dolphin which carried Arion. Novidius, however, saw in it the fish which swallowed Jonah ! Draco (the Dragon), which guarded the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides, and was killed by Hercules. Some, however, think it typical of the serpent which tempted Eve ! Eridanns... | |
 | Charles Alexander Johns - Forests and forestry - 1899 - 458 pages
...pass the night preceding Twelfthday at a lone farmhouse on the borders of Dartmoor, in 1 The fable of the dragon which guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides is probably derived from this source. Devonshire, and was somewhat alarmed at hearing, very late at... | |
 | John Ellard Gore - Astronomy - 1909 - 382 pages
...13), where it is called " the crooked serpent." In the Greek mythology it is supposed to represent the dragon which guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides. Some have suggested that it represented the serpent which tempted Eve. Dryden says, in his translation... | |
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... the story of Medusa, whose golden hair Minerva turned into snakes, and of the winged horse which sprung from the blood which gushed out in striking off Medusa's head... 
