461. Dragons
Books Mentioned
“The novels first by George R.R. Martin, and then the TV series. Game of Thrones was a huge global phenomenon.”
“He wrote a book with a brilliant title, The Dragons of Eden, where he proposes that the kind of seeming universality of the dragon as a myth is a kind of legacy of our primordial ancestors.”
“The Hobbit is famously, Tolkien starts writing it in the early 1920s when he's marking school certificate papers after he's come home from the First World War.”
“The story of Jason and the Argonauts is referenced as one of the great Greek myths involving Jason's quest for the golden fleece.”
“Daniel Ogden's book zooms in on what is a dracone, explaining the characteristics and stories of these serpentine monsters in Greek myth.”
“There's a brilliant account of Leviathan in the book of Job where God appears and basically kind of tells Job off for moaning.”
“In the book of Revelation, there is a vision of the future that is to come, featuring dragon-like monsters, including a red dracon that embodies evil.”
“Beowulf itself is a fusion of Norse and Christian traditions, and the dragon may be slightly imported.”
“You're starting to get books now, say Mallory, Thomas Mallory writing about King Arthur.”