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• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS 1
• INTRODUCTION
• THEMES OF THE COMBAT MYTH
• APOLLO AND THE DRAGON PYTHON AND DELPHYNE
• TITYOS
• PHORBAS AND PHLEGYAS
• KYKNOS AND OTHER BAD CHARACTERS
• KYKNOS
• LAPITHS AND DRYOPES
• PYRENEUS AND SYBARIS
• PYTHON AND HIS DERIVATIVES
• ZEUS AND TYPHON
• TYPHON AND PYTHON
• DRAGONESS AND LAMIA
• ECHIDNA, KETO
• SKYLLA
• LAMIA
• POINE AND PSAMATHE
• EMPUSA, MORMO, GELLO
• GOD AND DRAGON IN THE NEARER EAST HITTITE DRAGON AND DEMON
• BAAL’S COMBATS WITH SEA AND DEATH
• AQHAT
• DRAGON AS SEA AND DEATH
• GOD AND DRAGON IN MESOPOTAMIA
• THE GOD’S COMBAT
• COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
• TAMMUZ AND BILULU
• GILGAMESH
• GOD AND DRAGON IN EGYPT AND INDIA EGYPTIAN MYTHS
• INDIC MYTHS
• OBSERVATIONS ON ASIATIC MYTHS
• CHAOS AND COSMOS
• THE CHAOS DEMONS
• GIGANTOMACHY
• THE DYING GOD
• DEMONESS AND LOVE GODDESS
• TRICKERY AND MAGIC
• SUMMARY
• PERSEUS AND KADMOS
• PERSEUS
• KADMOS
• HERAKLES
• ALKESTIS AND THANATOS
• HERAKLES AT PYLOS
• ANTAIOS
• GERYON AND CACUS
• LAOMEDON AND HESIONE
• ACHELOOS, NESSOS, AND AMALTHEIA
• HYDRA AND LION
• EARLIER FORMS OF THE DELPHIC MYTH
• TELPHUSA
• DIONYSOS AT DELPHI
• POSEIDON AND PYRRHOS
• HERAKLES AND THE TRIPOD
• THE CORYCIAN CAVE
• THE CILICIAN CAVE
• THE PARNASSIAN CAVE
• LYKOREIA
• PYRRHOS, DEUKALION, LYKOROS
• MEN OF OAK AND STONE
• THE THREE SISTERS ON PARNASSOS
• THE RITUALS
• THE BABYLONIAN NEW-YEAR FESTIVAL
• OTHER ORIENTAL RITUALS
• SEPTERION AND PYTHIAN FESTIVAL
• CONCLUDING REMARKS ON MYTH AND RITUAL
• CONCLUSION
• CHARON AND THE STEERSMAN OF ARGO
• JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES
• COMBAT MYTHS OF CHINA, JAPAN, AND AMERICA
• APPENDIX 4 SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
• THE COMBAT IN GERMANIC MYTH AND LEGEND
• DRAGONS AND SPRINGS
• LIST OF ART WORKS ILLUSTRATING THE PYTHON, TITYOS, KYKNOS, AND TYPHON COMBATS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX A THEMES AND MOTIFS
• INDEX LOCORUM
• GENERAL INDEX