Talk:Ladon (mythology)

Ladon is Draco
Ladon is draco acc to, but not
 * , according to Hyginus' Astronomy[8][not in citation given].

as refd to in the text. Feel free to rm the subclause in the text, or otherwise, just feel free, lucky and successful! ... said: Rursus ( m bork³ ) 10:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Tree of Knowledge
Ladon guards the Tree of Knowledge, Hercules picks a golden apple with 5 seeds Isobel Chaveh (talk) 09:18, 13 October 2016 (UTC)


 * To any editors interested in this subject: You must provide appropriate sources for any claim connecting Ladon to the Judeo-Christian serpent in the Garden of Eden, or connecting anything about Greek mythology to anything about Judeo-Christian mythology. Yes, there are similar details. But we find convergent elements in mythologies all around the world, even those that had zero contact with each other. There certainly was cultural interchange between Greece and other nearby ancient civilizations but that doesn't validate any particular claim of shared origin for an image or story. There is a whole field of academia dedicated to analysing the cultural and artistic flow of ideas between the Ancient Greeks and their neighbors. If you want to explore the possibility of a real connection, you will have to delve into that body of research and analysis and let us know what you find, instead of making an unsourced claim. Livin270 (talk) 22:52, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Source List moved from article
The following is a large list of sources which was in the article itself, moved here so it can be used to improve the article.


 * Hesiod, Theogony 333 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic poetry C8th to C7th BC)
 * Euripides, Heracles Mad 394 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek tragedy C5th BC)
 * Sophocles, Trachiniae 1090 ff (trans. Jebb) (Greek tragedy C5th BC)
 * Scholiast on Sophocles, Trachiniae 1098 (Sophocles The Plays and Fragments Part V The Trachiniae trans. Jebb 1892 p. 159)
 * Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 1390 - 1451 (trans. Coleridge) (Greek epic poetry C3rd BC)
 * Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 1396 (The Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius trans. Coleridge 1889 p. 195)
 * Aratus, Phaenomena 63 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poetry C3rd BC)
 * Scholiast on Aratus, Phaenomena 66 (Callimachus and Lycophron Aratus trans. Mair 1921 p. 386)
 * Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 26. 2 ff (trans. Oldfather) (Greek history C1st BC)
 * Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5. Proem 1-54 (trans. Leonard) (Roman philosophy C1st BC)
 * Cicero, De Natura Deoeum 2. 106 (Mayor and Swainson) (Roman philosophy C1st BC)
 * Scholiast on Cicero, De Natura Deoeum 2. 106 (Ciceronis De Natura Deoeum Mayor and Swainson 1883 Vol 2 p. 223)
 * Cicero, De Natura Deorum 42. 108
 * Scholiast on Cicero, De Natura Deorum 42. 108 (Ciceronis De Natura Deoeum trans. Mayor Swainson 1883 Vol 2 p. 225)
 * Propertius, Elegies 2. 24a. 23 ff (trans. Butler) (Latin poetry C1st BC)
 * Virgil, Aeneid 4. 480 (trans. Fairclough) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC)
 * Scoliast on Virgil, Aeneid 4. 484 (The Works of Virgil trans. Hamilton Bryce 1894 p. 251)
 * Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. 190 (trans. Miller) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC to C1st AD)
 * Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Eratosthsmis Catasterismi Cap. 3 Draco (Eratosthsmis Catasterismi trans. Schaubach Heyne 1795 p. 18) (Greek mythography C1st AD)
 * Pliny, Natural History 5. 3 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st AD)
 * Lucan, Pharsalia 9. 358 ff (trans. Riley) (Roman poet C1st AD)
 * Scholiast on Lucan, Pharsalia 9. 358 (The Pharsalia of Lucan trans. Riley 1853 p. 358)
 * Seneca, Hercules Furens 239-240 (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st AD)
 * Seneca, Hercules Furens 527 ff
 * Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 18 ff (trans. Miller)
 * Seneca, Phoenissae 316 (trans. Miller)
 * Seneca, Agamemnon 852 ff (trans. Miller)
 * Silius, Punica 6. 183 ff (trans. Duff) (Roman epic poetry C1st AD)
 * Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 5 (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190) (trans. Pearse) (Greek mythography C1st to C2nd AD)
 * Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 5. 11 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
 * Pausanias, Description of Greece 6. 19. 8 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek travelogue C2nd AD)
 * Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythography C2nd AD)
 * Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 30
 * Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 151
 * Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 3 (trans. Grant)
 * Lucian, The Dance 56 ff (trans. Harmon) (Assyrian satire C2nd AD)
 * Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2. 17. 34a ff (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetoric C3rd AD)
 * Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2. 21. 5 ff
 * Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. 256 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic poetry C4th AD)
 * Nonnos, Dionysiaca 33. 276 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic poetry C5th AD)
 * Scholiast on Nonnos, Dionysiaca 33. 276 (Nonnos Dionysiaca trans. Rouse 1942 Vol II p. 269)
 * Scholiast on Caesaris Germanici Aratea 41B (Martianus Capella ed. Eyssenhardt 1866 pp. 382 sq.) (Roman prose C5th AD)
 * Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy 4. 7. 17 ff (trans. Rand & Stewart) (Roman philosophy C6th AD)
 * Servius, Servius In Vergilii Carmina Commentarii 4. 246 ff (trans. Thilo) (Greek commentary C4th AD to 11th AD)
 * Servius, Servius In Vergilii Carmina Commentarii 4. 484 ff
 * First Vatican Mythographer, Scriptores rerum mythicarum 38 Hesperides (ed. Bode) (Greek and Roman mythography C9th AD to C11th AD)
 * Second Vatican Mythographer, Scriptores rerum mythicarum 161 Aurea poma (ed. Bode) (Greek and Roman mythography C11th AD)
 * Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 2. 355 ff (trans. Untila et al.) (Greco-Byzantine history C12th AD)

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