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MYTHICAL SNAKE-LIKE REPTILES FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Pythoness; Greek dragon; Dragons in greek mythology; Colchian Dragon; Ismenian dragon; Colchian dragon; Dragon of Colchis
  • Dragon-chariot of Medea, Lucanian red-figure krater C4th BC, Cleveland Museum of Art
  • alt=Mosaico del III secolo a.C. proveniente da Kaulon

Pythoness         
·noun The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.
II. Pythoness ·noun Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.
pythoness         
¦ noun archaic a woman believed to be possessed by a spirit and to be able to foresee the future.
Origin
ME: from OFr. phitonise, from an alt. of late L. pythonissa, based on Gk puthon 'soothsaying demon'; cf. Pythian.
Pytho (beetle)         
GENUS OF INSECTS
Pytho is a genus of dead log beetles in the family Pythidae. There are about nine described species in Pytho.

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Dragons in Greek mythology

Dragons play a significant role in Greek mythology. Though the Greek drakōn often differs from the modern Western conception of a dragon, it is both the etymological origin of the modern term and the source of many surviving Indo-European myths and legends about dragons.