Apollo Belvedere of aesthetic perfection for Europeans and westernized parts of the world. It is now in the "Cortile del Belvedere" of the Pio-Clementine Museum of the Vatican Museums complex. The Greek god Apollo is depicted as a standing archer having just shot an arrow. Although there is no agreement as to the precise narrative detail being depicted, the conventional view has been that he has just slain the serpent Python, the chthonic serpent guarding Delphi—making the sculpture a "Pythian Apollo". Alternatively, it may be the slaying of the giant Tityos, who threatened his mother Leto, or the episode of the Niobids.
Midgard Serpent (Marvel Comics) a splash page to depict the creature's size, and then full pages to demonstrate the battle between the pair. Although killed, the Serpent was resurrected in "Thor" #486 - 488 (May - July 1995), and featured in "Avengers" vol. 3, #1 (Feb. 1998) before reappearing in "Thor" #80 vol. 2, (Aug. 2004). The Midgard Serpent first appears when a scientist draws what he believes to be venom from a statue of the serpent, the liquid becoming a deadly solvent. In the realm of Asgard, the seer Volla makes a prophecy that Thunder God Thor will battle the Midgard Serpent during