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Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male organism
- Child
- Metope
- Father
- Typhon
- Mother
- Echidna
- Image
- Herakles Ladon Staatliche Antikensammlungen SL89.jpg
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Ladon
- killed by
- Heracles
- name in native language
- Λάδων
- different from
- Ladon
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Encyclopedic overview
Heracles and Ladon, Roman relief plate, late era. Hercules and the Dragon Ladon, from the workshop of Giambologna, early 17th century (Walters Art Museum). Ladon (/ˈleɪdən/; Ancient Greek: Λάδων; gen.: Λάδωνος Ladonos) was a dragon in Greek mythology, who guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ladon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.