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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.
English: Athena, Heracles attacked by the crab and the Lenaean Hydra. White-ground Attic lekythos, ca. 500–475 BC. White-ground Attic lekythos, ca. 500–475 BC. Français : Athena, Héraclès attaqué par le crabe et l'Hydre de Lerne.
The geographer Strabo attests that the Lernaean waters were considered healing: Lake Lerna, the scene of the story of the Hydra, lies in Argeia and the Mycenaean territory; and on account of the cleansings that take place in it there arose a proverb, 'A Lerna of ills.' Now writers agree that the county has plenty of water, and that, although ...
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Lernaean Hydra: a many-headed, serpent-like creature that guarded an Underworld entrance beneath Lake Lerna. It was destroyed by Heracles, in his second Labour. Son of Typhon and Echidna. Ipotane: a race of half-horse, half-humans. The Ipotanes are considered the original version of the centaurs. Keres: the spirits of violent or cruel death.
Herakles fighting the Lernaean Hydra on a hydria by the Eagle Painter, circa 525 BC. Malibu: Getty Villa. The striking feature of the vases is their colourful decoration In this regard they differ from all other styles of black-figure vase painting. The style resembles Ionian vase painting and multicoloured wooden panels found in Egypt. Their ...
Hydra, also called the Lernaean Hydra, from Greek Mythology is described as a dragon-like animal; Ladon from Greek mythology; Python, from Greek mythology, the snake killed by Apollo; Typhon from Greek mythology is often thought of as a dragon; Agathodaemon: Agathodeamons numinous presence could be represented in art as a serpent in the ...
Hydra, also applies the Greek mythological sea monster representation.The Lernaean Hydra, [4] is the "gigantic water-snake-like monster with nine heads (the number varies), one of which was immortal...Anyone who attempted to behead the Hydra found that as soon as one head was cut off, two more heads would emerge from the fresh wound," [4] as ...