Python

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.4

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Python)

Life events

• Apollo learned prophecy from Pan, killed Python, and took over the oracle.(Apollodorus, Library 1.4 · 📍 Delphi)
  • With: Apollo Pan
  • “Apollo learned the art of prophecy from Pan, the son of Zeus and Hybris, and came to Delphi , where Themis at that time used to deliver oracles; and when the snake Python, which guarded the oracle, would have hindered him from approaching the chasm, he killed it and took over the oracle.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.4

• enemies with Apollo “when the snake Python, which guarded the oracle, would have hindered him from approaching the chasm, he killed it and took over the oracle”
• with Apollo (Apollo killed Python.) “he killed it and took over the oracle”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.