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The Lernaean Hydra or Hydra of Lerna (Ancient Greek: Λερναῖα ὕδρα, romanized: Lernaîa Húdrā), more often known simply as the Hydra, is a serpentine lake monster in Greek mythology and Roman mythology. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid, which was also the site of the myth of the Danaïdes.
Heracles attacked by the crab and the Lernaean Hydra. White-ground Attic lekythos, c. 500–475 BC. Cancer also known as Carcinus (Ancient Greek: Καρκίνος, romanized: Karkínos, lit. 'crab') or, simply the Crab, is a giant crab in Greek mythology that inhabited the lagoon of Lerna. [1]
Hercules' wife, thinking he would have an affair with her, was so desperate as to believe that a centaur's blood was a love potion and dipped Hercules' clothes with it. As it was truly poison, Hercules screamed in agony and begged his cousin (the one who helped him in killing the Lernaean Hydra) to burn him on a funeral pyre.
2. Slay the nine-headed Lernaean Hydra Heracles slaying the Lernaean Hydra A fire-breathing monster with multiple serpent heads. When one head was cut off, two would grow in its place. It lived in a swamp near Lerna. Hera had sent it in hopes it would destroy Heracles's home city because she thought it was invincible.
The side panels provide two additional scenes of Hercules: struggling with the Ceryneian Hind; fighting the Lernaean Hydra; The remaining five labours are shown on the front of the lid, from left to right: capturing the Erymanthian boar; cleansing the Augean stables; shooting the Stymphalian birds; capturing the Cretan bull; defeating Geryon
Its site near the village Mili at the Argolic Gulf is most famous as the lair of the Lernaean Hydra, the chthonic many-headed water snake, a creature of great antiquity when Heracles killed it, as the second of his labors. The strong Karstic springs remained; the lake, diminished to a silt lagoon by the 19th century, has vanished.
Hercules Augustus or Hercules Augusti, Hercules "in his capacity as protector of the ruling emperor." ... the kill of the Lernaean Hydra as the rejection of endless ...
Licos intends for Hercules to follow Philoctetes to prove his innocence, and for both men to be killed by the monstrous Hydra. Believing that his plan is working, Licos attempts to convince Deianira to marry him, but she is hesitant. Philoctetes is killed by the Hydra. Hercules kills the Hydra, but their battle weakens him into unconsciousness.