Python (mythologia)

Pȳthōn (-ōnis, m., Graece: Πύθων) est in mythologia Graeca serpens sive draco, qui oraculum Delphicum custodivit et ab Apolline necatus est. 

 Fontes 
 Ovidius,  Metamorphoses 1, 416 - 451.
 Hyginus mythographus, fabulae 140

 Bibliographia 
 Joseph Eddy Fontenrose: Python. A study of Delphic myth and its origins. University of California Press, Berkeley 1959
 Hans von Geisau: Python (1). In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. XXIV, Stuttgardiae 1963, Col. 609–610.
 L. Kahl: Python. In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Vol. VII, Turici/Monaci 1994, p. 609–610.

 Nexus externi 

 Python draco in: Theoi Project (Anglice)

Categoria:Mythologia Graeca