The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography

by Paul Stephenson and Paul Stephenson

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 column was created after the Battle of Plataia (479 BC), where the sky was dominated by serpentine constellations and by the spiralling tails of the Milky Way. It was erected as a votive for Apollo and as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190209062
• ISBN13: 9780190209063
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"