Introduction
INTRODUCTION: A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons very considerably through regions, but dragons in WESTERN cultures since the HIGH MIDDLE AGES have often been depicted as winged, horned and capable of breathing fire.
Task
TASK: WELCOME TO THIS QUEST! You will use links to access websites to help you answer questions about the dragons
Process
PROCESS:
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE WORD DRAGON?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dragon
WHERE DID THE STORIES OF DRAGONS FIRST START?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/where-did-dragons-come-from-23969126/
WHAT DO DRAGONS SYMBOLIZE IN GENERAL?
https://www.givemehistory.com/dragon-symbols
Evaluation
EVALUATION:
In the medieval era, winged dragons were common in illustrated bestiaries. These dragons also commonly had legs, although natural historians of this time continued to insist that they did not. But, in the sixteenth century, taxidermic hoaxes became common in the Mediterranean world, often featuring bipedal, winged dragons. Gessner, among others, was fooled by this trickery and accepted that these dragons really existed. Subsequent encyclopedias followed his lead. It was only in the eighteenth century that natural historians determined that dragons didn’t exist at all. But as Senter, Mattox, and Haddad point out, that’s only because they were thinking of Gessner’s dragons, not Homer’s.