• Milky Way was called "Okeanos, the World Stream"
• Families would keep and feed a bearded guardian snake with milk and cakes.
• Greek gryphons may be primative dragons?
• Not lizard like, don't have 4 feet, and have nothing to do with rain and/or water.
• Drakon means "sharp sighted, watchful"
• Guards sacred springs and treasure
• The word "dragon" is related to the Greek spakov, which is related to the Greek verb meaning "sharp-sighted" one.
• Was Phorbas a dragon slayer?
• The Greeks may have added to the treasure guarding aspect of dragons
• Hermes might be similar to Quetzalcoatl
• The Oracle at Delphi sometimes represented as a dragon.

"Prehistoric sculptures exhumed in Crete show water-demons of queerly changed crocodilian aspect with strange mammilian heads, and distinctly four-legged, which might have served as prototypes of the forms later developed in Western Europe" (Source: Dragons and Dragon Lore pg 45.)

• Hermes
• Herakles (ranks with Apollo and Zeus)

"The great Asiatic giant-and-dragon fighters certrainly contributed something to the legend of Herakles: Marduk, Ninurta, Gilgamesh, Samson, Hupasiyas, Aqhat and Indra, too." (Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins pg 322).

A dragon is shown flying over Alexander in the great's birth - signifying "divine origin". According to the Delphic Oracle, Olympias conceived Alexander by the god Zeus Ammon disguised as a dragon." (Source - Getty Museum).