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Portrait of Henri IV as Hercules pinning the Hydra of Lerna, an allegory of the Navarrese king's defeat of the Catholic League during the French Wars of Religion. Workshop of Toussaint Dubreuil, c. 1600. Greek and Roman writers related that Hera placed the Hydra and crab as constellations in the night sky after Heracles slew him. [14]
It is said that the Crab was placed among the stars by Juno, because, when Hercules was confronting the Hydra of Lerna, it came out of the swamp and bit him on the foot. Hercules, enraged, killed him, and Juno placed him among the constellations to be one of the twelve signs united by the circuit of the sun. —
The hydra would arise from the depts of the sea and terrorizethe land of Lerna. [5] The immortality of the Lernaean made this feat nearly impossible, except Hercules and his nephew Iolaus defeated the monster by lighting each headless neck—that Hercules decapitated—afire to prevent the regrowth of numerous ones. [5]
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.
At Lerna, Plutarch knew (Isis and Osiris), Dionysus was summoned as "Bugenes", "son of the Bull" with a strange archaic trumpet called a salpinx, while a lamb was cast into the waters as an offering for the "Keeper of the Gate." The keeper of the gate to the Underworld that lay in the waters of Lerna was the Hydra.
Heracles' second labour was to slay the Lernaean Hydra, a many-headed snake which Hera had raised with the sole purpose of slaying Heracles. Upon reaching the swamp near Lake Lerna, where the hydra dwelt, Heracles attacked the hydra's several heads, but each time one of its heads was removed, a new head (or two) would grow back. Additionally ...
Hercules and the Hydra (1634) by Francisco de Zurbarán. Hercules and the Hydra is a 1634 painting by Francisco de Zurbarán of Hercules fighting the Lernaean Hydra, now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. [1] It was from a series of the Labours of Hercules for the Hall of Realms in Madrid's Palacio del Buen Retiro. [2]
Hercules and the Cretan bull. Hercules's struggle with Antaeus. Hercules' struggle with the Erymanthian boar. Hercules diverting the river Alpheus. Hercules and Cerberus. Hercules wrestling with the Nemean lion. Hercules fights the Hydra of Lerna. Hercules closes the straits of Gibraltar. Hercules kills king Gerion. Death of Hercules.