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    The Penguin Book of Dragons (English Edition) Kindle Ausgabe

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    Two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons, which have breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of Thrones to Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm

    A Penguin Classic

    The most popular mythological creature in the human imagination, dragons have provoked fear and fascination for their lethal venom and crushing coils, and as avatars of the Antichrist, servants of Satan, couriers of the damned to Hell, portents of disaster, and harbingers of the last days. Here are accounts spanning millennia and continents of these monsters that mark the boundary between the known and the unknown, including: their origins in the deserts of Africa; their struggles with their mortal enemies, elephants, in the jungles of South Asia; their fear of lightning; the world’s first dragon slayer, in an ancient collection of Sanskrit hymns; the colossal sea monster Leviathan; the seven-headed “great red dragon” of the     Book of Revelation; the Loch Ness monster; the dragon in Beowulf, who inspired Smaug in Tolkien’s The Hobbit; the dragons in the prophecies of the wizard Merlin; a dragon saved from a centipede in Japan who gifts his human savior a magical bag of rice; the supernatural feathered serpent of ancient Mesoamerica; and a flatulent dragon the size of the Trojan Horse. From the dark halls of the Lonely Mountain to the blue skies of Westeros, we expect dragons to be gigantic, reptilian predators with massive, bat-like wings, who wreak havoc defending the gold they have hoarded in the deep places of the earth. But dragons are full of surprises, as is this book.

    For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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      12. Oktober 2021
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    Contents

    Ancient Enemies: Monstrous Snakes in the Greco-Roman World
    ·        The Hydra of Lerna: From Apollodorus’s     The Library
    ·        Medusa, Mother of Monsters: From Lucan’s     Pharsalia
    ·        Cadmus and the Dragon of Ares: From Ovid’s     Metamorphoses
    ·        The Death of Laocoön: From Virgil’s     Aeneid
    ·        The Dragon of Bagrada River: From Silius Italicus’s     Punica
    ·        Dragons Against Elephants: From Pliny’s     Natural History
     
    Satanic Serpents: Dragons and Saints in Early Christianity
    ·        Biblical Beasts: From the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament
    ·        The Guardian of Heaven’s Ladder: From the     Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity
    ·        Descendants of Darkness: From the     Acts of Philip
    ·        The Dragon Became Her Tomb: From Venantius Fortunatus’s     Life of Marcellus
    ·        Coiled Couriers of the Damned: From the     Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great
    ·        The Monster of the River Ness: From Adomnán of Iona’s     Life of Columba
     
    Guardians of the Hoard: The Wyrms of Northern Literature
    ·        The Terror of Nations: From the     Beowulf Poem
    ·        Sigurd, Slayer of Fáfnir: From     Völsunga saga
    ·        Winged Dragons of the North: From the     Saga of Ketil Trout and the Saga of Þiðrek of Bern
               
    Books of Monsters: Dragon Lore in Medieval Europe
    ·        A Treasury of Ancient Dragon Lore: From Isidore of Seville’s     Etymologies
    ·        Dark Age Creature Catalogues: From the     Marvels of the East and the Book of Monsters
    ·        You Crushed their Heads Upon the Waters: From Hrabanus Maurus’s     About Everything
    ·        Remembering a Pannonian Dragon: From Arnold of St. Emmeram’s     Concerning the Miracles of St. Emmeram
    ·        God’s Fiery Vengeance: From Henry of Tournai’s     Concerning the Miracles of St. Mary of Laon
    ·        Bone Fires and Dragon Sperm: From John Beleth’s     Summa on Ecclesiastical Offices
    ·        The Prophecies of Merlin: From Geoffrey of Monmouth’s     The History of the Kings of Britain
    ·        The Devil is the Largest Serpent: From the Medieval Bestiary Tradition
    ·        Hunting Monsters in Kara-Jang: From Marco Polo’s     The Travels of Marco Polo
     
    Draconic Demons and Ogres: Dragons in Byzantium
    ·        A Theologian Contemplates the Nature of Dragons: From Pseudo-John of Damascus’s     On Dragons
    ·        Why Dragons Fear Lightning: From Michael Psellos’     On Meteorological Matters
    ·        A Demon in Disguise: From the     Martyrdom of Saint Marina
    ·        The Treasury Dragon of Constantinople: From the     Life and Martyrdom of Saint Hypatios of Gangra
    ·        The Terror of Trebizond: From the     Life of Saint Eugenios
    ·        The Ogre-Dragon’s Pitiless Heart: From the     Romance of Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoe
     
    Dragons and their Slayers in the Later Middle Ages
    ·        The Dragon and the Lion: From Chrétien de Troyes’     The Knight with the Lion
    ·        A Dragon with the Devil Inside: From     The Captives
    ·        Four Saintly Dragonslayers: From Jacobus de Voragine’s     Golden Legend
     
    Antichrist Ascendent: Dragons in Early Modern Literature
    ·        The Dragons of Fairyland: From    Edmund Spenser’s The Fairie Queene
    ·        A Farting Dragon Burlesque: The Dragon of Wantley
    ·        The Great Serpent Returns: From John Milton’s     Paradise Lost
     
    Gods and Monsters: Dragons of the East
    ·        The Dragon of Drought: From the     Rigveda
    ·        A Black Wind from the Sea: From Al-Masudi’s     Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems
    ·        No One Ever Escapes My Claws: From     The Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsk
    ·        The Eight-Headed Serpent of Koshi: From Ō No Yasumaro’s     Records of Ancient Matters
    ·        Chief of the Scaly Creatures: From Li Shizhen’s     Collected Interpretations
    ·        My Lord Bag of Rice: A Japanese Folktale
    ·        The Fisherman and the Dragon Princess: A Japanese Folktale
     
    Here Be Dragons: Monstrous Habitats in Early Modern Thought     
    ·        Strange, Yet Now A Neighbour to Us: From     A Discourse Relating a Strange and             Monstrous Serpent or Dragon
    ·        A World Full of Dragons: From Edward Topsell’s     The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents
    ·        Dwellers Below: From Athanasius Kircher’s     Subterranean World
    ·        The Last American Dragons: Excerpts from Early American Newspapers
     
    Terror Tamed: Domesticated Drakes in Childrens’ Literature
    ·        A Lizardy Sort of Beast: Kenneth Grahame’s     The Reluctant Dragon
    ·        Your Kindness Quite Undragons Me: Edith Nesbit’s     The Last of the Dragons

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    • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08X1CN427
    • Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics
    • Barrierefreiheit ‏ : ‎ Erfahre mehr
    • Erscheinungstermin ‏ : ‎ 12. Oktober 2021
    • Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
    • Dateigröße ‏ : ‎ 4.2 MB
    • Screenreader ‏ : ‎ Unterstützt
    • Verbesserter Schriftsatz ‏ : ‎ Aktiviert
    • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Nicht aktiviert
    • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Aktiviert
    • Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe ‏ : ‎ 320 Seiten
    • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0525506690
    • PageFlip ‏ : ‎ Aktiviert
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    • King of Titans
      5,0 von 5 Sternen Very Excellent Read and an Amazing View into Dragon history
      Bewertet in den USA am18. August 2023
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      I particularly liked how Penguin gathered accounts from all over the world and set them in a linear fashion. You learned not just about the classic Western dragon, but about the other dragons from Greco-Roman times and other cultures. It also shows the evolution of our mindset of dragons, from hated representations of Satan to more friendly presentations such as in some of E. Nesbit's tales.

      Very enjoyable read for any dragon lover and would highly recommend getting it as a gift for them or yourself!
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    • Ms. K. Frank
      5,0 von 5 Sternen A wonderful read
      Bewertet in Großbritannien am 24. Juli 2024
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      Great overview of dragon lore. Unputdownable!
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    • Martin Jones
      4,0 von 5 Sternen Imaginary Monsters With Real Power
      Bewertet in Großbritannien am 20. März 2022
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      The Penguin Book of Dragons is a fascinating collection of writing referencing this famous mythic beast, with examples dating from about 1500BC, to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

      When I was at university in the 1980s, one of my courses covered what was called ‘agitprop’, a kind of aggressive, black and white theatrical style used to push a political agenda. Dragons started out in life with a starring role in what you might call religiously inspired agitprop. Heroes of all religious shades, wishing to acquire an impressive reputation, required a formidable enemy to defeat. The scarier the enemy, the more impressive the chosen one’s triumph. Drawing perhaps on an instinctive fear of snakes, a ferocious, fire-breathing serpent evolved to take on the task of symbolic enemy. For millennia this super snake was a tool, actually more a blunt instrument, used to build up heroes, run down opponents, or maintain discipline - in the ‘go to bed or the monster will get you’ sense. The Loch Ness Monster derived from accounts of this kind. In a more general context the dragon became a symbol of temptation or greed. While Genesis had a serpent persuading Eve to eat an apple from the Tree of Knowledge, later more secular incarnations were characteristically portrayed as guardians of cursed treasure hoards.

      So pervasive was dragon imagery, so tied into primeval desires and fears, that early scientists bent themselves out of shape trying to make a mythic animal into a real one. In the case of the Loch Ness Monster, scientific investigations continued until quite recently - a 2019 DNA study of the loch showing a large eel population.

      Slowly as the centuries went by, with people became at least a little more rational, these ferocious creatures began to lose their power. Though one scurrilous eighteenth century journalist suggested there were dragons living near Horsham, Sussex, their habitats were generally located in conveniently distant, inaccessible locations, the kind of places that were progressively squeezed away by the advance of knowledge and technology. By the early twentieth century, dragons had been tamed into cute characters in children’s stories, by writers such as Kenneth Grahame and Edith Nesbit.

      And yet, all the human characteristics which gave birth to dragons still survive. People remain greedy, vulnerable to temptation, and are still prone to an irrational simplification of complicated situations into an easily digested agitprop. We might be more scientific these days, but irrationality in many ways is still a potent force, as seen in modern conspiracy theories and misinformation. Perhaps The Penguin Book of Dragons presents the trajectory of its narrative a little too neatly. There remain, after all, echoes of former dragon powers in Tolkien’s Smaug, and in the hatchlings of Westeros, which, in the Game of Thrones books, mark the return of a long-lost species of a fire breathing reptile to the world. Perhaps that return in George R.R. Martin’s hugely successful book series is instructive. Maybe dragons continue to lurk, not now in dark corners of the world, but in dark corners of the human mind from whence they originally emerged.

      The Penguin Book of Dragons uses a mythic creature to access a huge range of literature in different times and places, all linked by a common thread. I enjoyed it.
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    • Beetlebum
      5,0 von 5 Sternen Dragons! And other foul würms
      Bewertet in den USA am8. April 2022
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      An interesting anthology from Penguin, wandering around history looking for tales of one of our all-time favourite mythical beasts. Usual Penguin quality, an entertaining read.
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