Colchian Dragon’s Family Tree

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Family

• Echidna(parent),Typhon(parent),Cerberus(sibling),Chimera(sibling),Ladon(sibling),Lernaean Hydra(sibling),Nemean Lion(sibling),Orthrus(sibling),Sphinx(sibling)— Consort

  Typhon and Echidna produced a brood of monsters including Cerberus, the Chimera, the Lernaean Hydra, the Nemean Lion, the Sphinx, Orthrus, Ladon, and the Colchian Dragon — terrors that defined Greek heroic mythology.

Guards

• Golden Fleece

  The Colchian Dragon coiled around the oak tree from which the Golden Fleece hung in the sacred grove of Ares, guarding it with sleepless vigilance day and night.

Associated with

• Ares

  The Colchian Dragon kept vigil over the Golden Fleece in Ares's sacred grove at Colchis, a sleepless serpent coiled around the oak from which the fleece hung, protecting the war god's consecrated ground.

• Argonauts

  The Argonauts faced the Colchian Dragon, the ever-wakeful serpent guarding the Golden Fleece in Ares' sacred grove. Medea sang it to sleep with incantations, allowing Jason to seize the fleece.

• Jason

  The Colchian Dragon, offspring of Typhon and Echidna, guarded the Golden Fleece in the grove of Ares at Colchis. Jason seized the fleece after Medea's sorcery put the sleepless dragon to sleep.

• Medea

  Medea used her sorcery to overcome the ever-wakeful Colchian Dragon. In Apollonius's Argonautica, she sang incantations and anointed its eyes with a potion of juniper, lulling the guardian to sleep so Jason could seize the Golden Fleece.