Apollo taught to the humans the art of healing and archery. Phoebe, his grandmother, gave the oracular shrine of Delphi to Apollo as a birthday gift. Themis inspired him to be the oracular voice of Delphi thereon. Later, with his bow and arrows that he had received from Hephaestus, Apollo went in search of the chthonic dragon Python, which lived in Delphi beside the Castalian Spring, and was a terror to the people. Hera had sent this serpent to hunt the pregnant Leto to her death across the world. To avenge the trouble given to his mother, Apollo killed Python in
Lion with a Snake and was the first bronze installed in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia the following year, where it is known as Lion Crushing a Serpent. Lion with a Snake Lion with a Snake (French: "Lion au serpent") is an 1832 sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye. It measures . The original plaster was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1833 and is in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. It was cast in bronze using the lost-wax process in 1835 by . The original cast was acquired by Louis Philippe I and - after being exhibited in the Tuileries Gardens from 1836 to