With the poisoned arrow piercing the hydra's last neck, it died. When all but one head was gone, Hercules dipped an arrow into the poisonous blood of the hydra, and shot the hydra's last remaining head. The crab was no match for the hero and he quickly crushed the crab with his foot. Right behind him with a torch was his nephew Lolous who would then burn the necks.Įnraged with Hercules’s progress of slaying the hydra she sent a giant crab to distract and pinch Hercules’s. Hercules sprang to work cutting off the heads of the hydra with his magic gold sword. Hercules and his nephew arrived at the swamp and were met by the hydra that had too many heads to count. So Hercules with his nephew in toe traveled back to the swamp to beat the hydra. The plan was Hercules would cut off the head, and before 2 more would grow back it was Lolous job to burn the cut neck of the hydra. Hercules found his nephew Lolous and asked him to help. Hercules realizing that this wasn't going to work retreated into the forest.
Hercules tried again, and each time he cut a head of 2 more heads appeared. Hercules made quick work of the 8 magic heads, and went to strike the final blow when the magic heads sprung back to life now 16 heads. He shot a flaming arrow and the hydra, and the hydra came after Hercules. Hercules covered his mouth and nose with cloth so he wouldn't get harmed (or have to smell) the nasty hydra breath. Hercules came across the swamp where the hydra lived. Hercules set off with a bow and arrows and his magic gold sword (a gift from the goddess Athena ) to find and slay the hydra. This was a special creature that Hera raised specifically to destroy Hercules.įor Hercules's second labor King Eurystheus sent Hercules to slay the nine-headed hydra of Lernaean. It had poison for blood and 8 magic heads, that were one was removed 2 more heads would grow back in its place. See also : Greek Mythology.The nine-headed hydra of Lernaean was a snake like creature that lives in the water and had REALLY bad breath that would strip the paint right off a car so to speak.
Was it mathematically possible to kill the Hydra ? The answer is yes!: HERCULES AND THE HYDRA: A PROBLEM IN COMBINATORICS (PDF) and Hercule et l'hydre (French) 1137) and it is likely that the marshy geology of the entire Argive plain contributed to the creation of a legendary swamp creature. The Lernean Hydra is characterized as the bane of Argos (Eur. Later scholiasts, Lactantius and Servius, are explicit about the interpretation of the myth, that the Lernean Hydra was a swamp ( Si veram quaeramus historiam, Lerna palus fuit), the waters of which Hercules dried up. 2.5.2) preserves a version of the myth that Herakles could not kill one immortal head of the Hydra but had to bury it underground, a description which sounds like retraining of a watercourse. Herakles cannot kill the monster with ordinary weapons but must resort to the use of firebrands, fire being the antithesis of water, and Apollodoros ( Bibl. 572 - 577), both qualities are apt metaphors for the stagnant and invasive waters of a swamp. In Greek mythology, it represents the water snake brought to the god Apollo by the crow, Corvus, as an excuse for being late from his errand to fetch water.
It is not difficult to discover the refracted image of the multiple sources of a marshy area in the polykephalic form of the Hydra a multitude of writhing snakes is enough to suggest a swamp, but the nature of her destruction is specified as agricultural and her blood is poisonous (Eur. The Lernean Hydra Labor is a case in point. Salowey about the Lernea Hydra in “ Herakles and Healing Cult in the Peloponnesos”: Some living creatures like two-headed snakes, such as the example of Thelma and Louise at the San Diego Zoo, that are not very rare may have contributed to the mythological stories.Ĭhristina A. An explanation is that the myth commemorates a plague which devastated the population of ancient Lernea. Probably there is some relation between the word "toxic" and the Greek word "toxon," meaning arrow. Hercules usds the body of the Hydra to produce his poisoned arrows. Iolaos, the son of Iphicles, helps his half-brother Hercules by cauterizing the wounds where the necks of the Hydra were cut through before a new head could grow back. It lived near a spring Amymone and had many heads which grow back when cut off. Is it possible that Hercules was fighting with this small Hydra? The Hydra was a child of Typhon and Echidna ie a half-sister of the Nemean Lion. Italy 1998, the artist has choosen a very spectacular way of how Hercules “wears” the Nemean Lion (the way it is fixed)
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