During the middle ages, dragons were symbol of menace, evil, and death. Researchers have discovered the following:

Winged dragons made its first western appearances in the works of ancient

Greece and in the bible, but it was medieval Europe whose imagination was most captured by the stubby-legged, fired breathing dragons. (Time-Life 9)

This proves that ordinary men were afraid to fight with dragons because of its horrible appearance. As a result of this, gods and goddesses and heroes were to be in continual demand of challenge and destroy the dragon. According

In modern day, men still believed in power of dragons but dragon¡¯s mythology changed from Middle Ages by every other culture and history of each country. For example, in China dragon was a divine bringer of rain, necessary for the good of all. Also, the dragon was symbol of the good emperor whose wisdom and divine power assured the well being of his subjects. Many Chinese legends draw connections between the dragon and the emperor because dragons were believed as special protectors. Also, men in China said, ¡°the dragon is a prominent character of parade on the Chinese new year¡± (Leach 323). But the dragons of Japanese mythology were said to spread disease and death among the people. Men in Greece and Rome believed that ¡°dragons were thought to understand the secrets of the earth and possess both protective and fear some qualities, so as a result, the dragon came to be used as a military symbol¡± (Wickersham 35).

Therefore, the dragon mythology changed step by step from Middle Ages till now on. Even though, first appearance of dragons occurred in ancient Greece and in the bible, Middle Age was mostly captured by theme of dragons and strongly relied on dragon mythology and it even became big part of the society. In modern day, men still believed the power of dragons but new way of belief of dragons occurred. Such as in China, the dragon symb

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