Saint George
The Ancients
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Saint George - A Crusader?
The first image that we have that still survives to us of saint george is as a crusader. The positioning of the figure on the ground of the soldier that he's fighting, you can almost map it on to the classic form of saint George trampling the gon. So i think that it kind of mells and merges into the idea of the dragon because, as we said before, christianity needs a dragon slayer in order to kind of fit with what people's expect ons are of a proper religion. That is something which becomes a very, very common image of ge attacking the dragon. It is arguably about overcoming heresy or untruth, something like that
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