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Classical Texts and History • Re: Pillars of Hercules

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It seems the Leviathan is either a fish or a snake?

Job 41:1 תמשך לויתן בחכה
ἅπτεις ἰχθύδιον? ἐν ἀγκίστρῳ "Can you bind the fish with a hook" ?

Homer Odyssey 4.365
She met me as I wandered alone apart from my comrades, who were ever roaming about the island, fishing with bent hooks, for hunger pinched their bellies; (ἰχθυάασκον γναμπτοῖς ἀγκίστροισιν)

Isaiah 27:1 לויתן נחש ברח "Leviathan the poisonous snake?

φαρμακεύς ברח poisoner
ἔχιδνα נחשׁ echidna?

Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses 4.481
the venom of Echidna
virus Echidnae

Aristophanes, Frogs 460
Echidna with her hundred heads
ἔχιδνά θ᾽ ἑκατογκέφαλος

Euripides, Heracles 875
the Gorgon child of Night, with a hundred hissing serpent-heads,
Νυκτὸς Γοργὼν ἑκατογκεφάλοις ὄφεων ἰαχήμασι

Euripides, Heracles 1178
Amphitryon - Slain them in a wild fit of frenzy [1190] with arrows dipped in the venom of the hundred-headed hydra
μαινομένῳ πιτύλῳ πλαγχθεὶς ἑκατογκεφάλου τε βαφαῖς ὕδρας.

Statistics: Posted by Ethan — Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:35 pm



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