Ladon

Family: monsters · Role: guardian serpent · First appears: Book IV 11

Life events

• Heracles strikes Ladon, leaving the serpent lifeless beside the apple-tree.(Book IV 11 · 📍 garden of Atlas)
  • With: Heracles
  • “but they came to the sacred plain where Ladon, the serpent of the land, till yesterday kept watch over the golden apples in the garden of Atlas; and all around the nymphs, the Hesperides, were busied, chanting their lovely song. But at that time, stricken by Heracles, he lay fallen by the trunk of the apple-tree; only the tip of his tail was still writhing; but from his head down his dark spine he lay lifeless”

Book IV 11

• enemies with Heracles “but at that time, stricken by Heracles, he lay fallen by the trunk of the apple-tree”
• with Atlas (Ladon guarded the golden apples in Atlas’s garden.) “Ladon, the serpent of the land, till yesterday kept watch over the golden apples in the garden of Atlas”

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.