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The ancient Greeks knew of dragons as evidenced in the [[Illiad]] and Philostratus described dragons in [[India]]. Dragon-like creatures are mentioned in the Bible in Job 26:13, Isaiah 27:1 and Genesis 1:21 where it is known as [[leviathan]]. Many Christian saints have also encountered dragons, particularly as dragon-slayers. The most famouse being Saint George but also Saint Mercurialis, the first bishop of the city of Forlì, Saint Julian of Le Mans, Saint Veran, Saint Crescentinus, Saint Margaret of Antioch, Saint Martha and Saint Leonard of Noblac.
The ancient Greeks knew of dragons as evidenced in the [[Illiad]] and Philostratus described dragons in [[India]]. Dragon-like creatures are mentioned in the Bible in Job 26:13, Isaiah 27:1 and Genesis 1:21 where it is known as [[leviathan]]. Many Christian saints have also encountered dragons, particularly as dragon-slayers. The most famouse being Saint George but also Saint Mercurialis, the first bishop of the city of Forlì, Saint Julian of Le Mans, Saint Veran, Saint Crescentinus, Saint Margaret of Antioch, Saint Martha and Saint Leonard of Noblac.
==Dragons and Secular Science==
==Dragons and Modern Science==
Modern [[science]] does not accept ancient accounts of seeing dragons, instead categorizing dragons as mythical, being loosely based on creatures such as [[snake]]s. This has been contested on the basis that snakes do not have legs like dragons, nor do they grow nearly as large as dragons.
Modern psychology and paleontology offers us one explanation; the features of the majority of dragons are a chimeric combination of several different types of animals that prehistoric man had to fear. Birds of prey, big cats, and large reptiles being among man's chief competitors in prehistoric times, it is theorized that the dragon was an amalgamation of these animals as a remnant of instinctual memories.
==In Popular Culture==
==In Popular Culture==