Python
A serpentine dragon from Greek tradition.
↻ synthesized from 9 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Hellenistic accounts.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Delphyne, Campe, Ceto, drakaina, Sybaris, Phoebe, Coeus, Tityos, Baphomet, Asteria, Iris, Boreas, Tityus, Asclepius, Leto, Muses, Carmanor, Persephone, Britomartis, Acacallis, Eubuleus, Chrysothemis, Carmê, Phylacides, Philander, Puck, Psychopomp, Púca, Putz, Puk, Pūķis, Scylla, Medusa, Echidna, Lamia, the devil, Typhon, Pan, Ahriman, Zeus, Hera, Ares
- enemy of
- Leto, Artemis (Diana), Apollo, Sauroctonus
- child of
- Gaia
Mentioned by
- Puck
- Psychopomp
- Púca
- Putz
- Puk
- Pūķis
- Scylla
- Medusa
- Echidna
- Lamia
- the devil
- Typhon
- Pan
- Ahriman
- Zeus
- Hera
and 3 more
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Python (Greek) – Serpentine dragon”
#5261 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Although, in Hellenistic and later accounts, the Delphic monster slain by Apollo is usually said to be the male serpent Python, in the earliest known account of this story, the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (6th century BC), the god kills a nameless she-serpent (drakaina), subsequently called Delphyne.”
#6076 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Python, slain by Apollo, and the earliest representations of Delphyne are shown as simply gigantic serpents, similar to other Greek dragons.”
#6105 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“One of the monsters that came across Leto was the dragon Python, which lived in a cleft of the mother-rock beneath Delphi and beside the Castalian Spring. Once Python knew that Leto was pregnant to Zeus, he hunted her down with the intention to harm her”
#22729 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Yes, we confront here that phantom of all terrors, the dragon of all theogonies, the Ahriman of the Persians, the Typhon of the Egyptians, the Python of the Greeks, the old serpent of the Hebrews, the fantastic monster, the nightmare, the Croquemitaine, the gargoyle, the great beast of the Middle Ages, and—worse than all these—the Baphomet of the Templars”
#24014 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001