E. A. Wallis Budge, The Martyrdom and Miracles of Saint George of Cappadocia (1888), xxxi–xxxiii;
206, 223.
Budge (1930), 33–44 also likens George against Dadianus to Horos against Set or Ra against Apep.
See also Joseph Eddy Fontenrose, Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins (1959), p. 518 (fn 8).
Paul Stephenson, The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography, Oxford University Press (2016), 179–182.
E. A. Wallis Budge, The Martyrdom and Miracles of Saint George of Cappadocia (1888), xxxi–xxxiii;
206, 223.
Budge (1930), 33–44 also likens George against Dadianus to Horos against Set or Ra against Apep.
See also Joseph Eddy Fontenrose, Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins (1959), p. 518 (fn 8).
"Thierry 1972, who dates the fresco to as early as the seventh century. However, this seems unlikely, as it would be three hundred years earlier than any other church fresco in the region."
Stephenson (2016), 180 (fn 89).
see also: Walter (2003), pp. 56, 125, plate 27. Walter, Christopher (2003), The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition, Abingdon: Routledge, ISBN9781351880510.
Johns (2017)p. 170
"the pairing of the two holy dragon-slayers has no narrative source, and the symbolic meaning of the scene is spelled out in an inscription written on both sides of the central cross, which compares the victory of the two saints over the dragon to Christ's triumph over evil on the cross."
notably the icon known as "Black George", showing the saint both on a black horse and facing left, made in Novgorod in the first half of the 15th century (BM 1986,0603.1)
"a few 14th–16th century Novgorod icons such as the 'Miracle of St George', a mid-14th-century icon from the Morozov collection and now in the Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow (Bruk and Iovleva 1995, no. 21), 'St George, Nikita and the Deesis', a 16th-century icon in the Russian Museum, St Petersburg, (Likhachov, Laurina and Pushkariov 1980, fig. 237) and on some Northern Russian icons, for instance, the 'Miracle of St George and his Life' from Ustjuznan and dating from the first half of the 16th century (Rybakov 1995, fig. 214)"
British Museum Russian Icon "The Miracle of St George and the Dragon / Black George".
Charles Clermont-Ganneau, "Horus et Saint Georges, d'après un bas-relief inédit du Louvre". Revue archéologique, 1876.
"Horus on horseback | Louvre Museum | Paris". louvre.fr..
St. George and the Dragon: Introduction in:
E. Gordon Whatley, Anne B. Thompson, Robert K. Upchurch (eds.), Saints' Lives in Middle Spanish
Collections (2004).
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