I need a Greek Myth Serpent?

Question

Hey I need to compare the Midgaurd serpent or yggdrasil (from norse myth) to a greek serpent...but i cant think of any, does anyone know about one.

Answer 1

Here are three Greek Mythology serpents for you:

KAMPE (or Campe) was a monstrous Drakaina (she-dragon) who was appointed by the Titan Kronos to guard the Hekatonkheires and Kyklopes when he had them locked away in the pit of Tartaros. Zeus slew her and freed the giants from their prison to aide him in his war against the Titanes.

Kampe was a monstrous centaurine creature who, from the waist up, had the body of a serpentine-haired woman. Below that she had the body of a scaly drakon with a thousand vipers for feet and sprouting from her waist the heads of fifty fearsome beasts - lions, boars and other wild animals. Dark wings rose from her shoulders and above her head she lifted a furious scorpion's tail.

She was probably closely identified with that other Tartarean Drakaina Ekhidna.

And this:
EKHIDNA (or Echidna) was a monstrous she-dragon (drakaina) with the head and breast of a woman. She probably represented or presided over the corruptions of the earth: rot, slime, fetid waters, illness and disease.
She was often equated with Python (the rotting one), a dragon born of the fetid slime left behind by the great Deluge. Others call her the Tartarean lamprey, and assigned her to the dark, swampy pit of Tartaros beneath the earth. Hesiod, makes her a daughter of monstrous sea-gods, and presumably associates her with rotting sea-scum and fetid salt-marshes.
In all cases, she was described as the consort of Typhoeus, a monstrous storm-daemon who challenged Zeus in heaven. Together they spawned a host of terrible monsters to plague the earth.
Other closely related she-dragons included the Argive Ekhidna and Poine, the Tartarean Kampe, and the Phokian Sybaris.
In the image (right), Ekhidna is equated with Python. Apollo seated on the omphalos stone slays her with his arrows: in the motif of healing god (Paian) destroying plague-bringing demon.

And this:
PYTHON was a monstrous serpent which Gaia (Mother Earth) appointed to guard the oracle at Delphoi. The beast was sometimes said to have been born from the rotting slime left behind after the great Deluge.
When Apollon laid claim to the shrine, he slew the dragon with his arrows. The oracle and festival of the god were then named Pytho and Pythian from the rotting (pythô) corpse of the beast. According to some, Apollon slew the monster to avenge his mother Leto, who had been pursued relentlessly by the dragon during her long pregnancy.

Python was described as both a male or female drakon in alternate accounts. The Homeric Hymn to Apollo (and some Greek art) equates her entirely with Ekhidna, a woman-headed serpent or drakaina, who nursed and later consorted with the monstrous giant Typhoeus.
In the image right, Apollon, seated upon the omphalos stone at Delphoi slays Python with his arrows. Here she is depicted as the Ekhidna, a she-dragon with woman's head and breast.