does any body have info. on the beast called the Hydra?

Answer 1

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In Greek mythology, the Lernaean Hydra was an ancient nameless serpent-like chthonic water beast that possessed numerous heads (although it's often said to have nine) —the poets mention more heads than the vase-painters could paint—and poisonous breath (Hyginus, 30). The Hydra of Lerna was killed by Heracles as one of his Twelve Labours. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid, though archaeology has borne out the myth that the sacred site was older even than the Mycenaean city of Argos, for Lerna was the site of the myth of the Danaids. Beneath the waters was an entrance to the Underworld, and the Hydra was its guardian (Kerenyi 1959, p. 143...)

The Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, noisome creatures of the Goddess who became Hera. It was said to be the sibling of the Nemean Lion, the Chimaera and Cerberus. As such, it was said to have been chosen as a task for Heracles so that Heracles would probably die.

The second labour of Heracles: The Lernaean Hydra

The battle
Upon reaching the swamp near Lake Lerna, where the Hydra dwelt, Heracles covered his mouth and nose with a cloth to protect himself from the poisonous fumes and fired flaming arrows into its lair, the spring of Amymone, to draw it out. He then confronted it, wielding a harvesting sickle in some early vase-paintings; Ruck and Staples (p. 170) have pointed out that the chthonic creature's reaction was botanical: upon cutting off each of its heads he found that two grew back, an expression of the hopelessness of such a struggle for any but the hero, Heracles.


Apollodorus
The details of the confrontation are explicit in Apollodorus (2.5.2): realising that he could not defeat the Hydra in this way, Heracles called on his nephew Iolaus for help. His nephew then came upon the idea (possibly inspired by Athena) of using a burning firebrand to scorch the neck stumps after decapitation, and handed him the blazing brand. Heracles cut off each head and Iolaus burned the open stump leaving the hydra dead; its one immortal head Heracles placed under a great rock on the sacred way between Lerna and Elaius (Kerenyi1959 p 144), and dipped his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood, and so his second task was complete. The alternative to this is that after cutting off one head he dipped his sword in it and used its venom to burn each head so it couldn't grow back.


Cancer and Leo
In an alternative version, Hera's crab was at the site to bite his feet and bother him, hoping to cause his death. Hera set it in the Zodiac to follow the Lion (Eratosthenes, Catasterismi)


Iolaus
When Eurystheus, the agent of ancient Hera who was assigning to Heracles The Twelve Labours, found out that it was Heracles' nephew who had handed him the firebrand, he declared that the labour had not been completed alone and as a result did not count towards the ten labours set for him. The mythic element is an equivocating attempt to resolve the submerged conflict between an ancient ten Labours and a more recent twelve.


After the Hydra
Heracles later used an arrow dipped in the Hydra's poison blood to kill the centaur Nessus; and Nessus's tainted blood applied to the Tunic of Nessus eventually killed Heracles himself.

Today "Hydra-like problem" or "hydra" refers to a multifaceted problem that seems incapable of step-by-step solution, or to one that worsens upon conventional attempts to solve it, for example, attempts to suppress a particular piece of information resulting in it being disseminated even more widely.


Origin
Gustave Moreau: Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra, 1876When the sun is in the sign of Cancer, the constellation Hydra has its head nearby. Also close by, beneath the sun, is the constellation of Cancer, the crab. Mythographers relate that the Lernaean Hydra and the crab were put into the sky after Heracles slew them.

Lerna features in another myth as a fountain from Poseidon created in memorial of the daughter of Danaos (who represents the Danae, who appear in earlier works, such as the Illiad, as a seafaring group from elsewhere), which may be a myth of a failed attack on the native population by Danae, which the Danae later repeated successfully.

The Greek word for arrow, which is toxon, is closely related to the Greek word for poison, which is toxis, thus the poison arrows that Heracles created from the Hydra's blood. Associations with the Nemaean lion may derive from recreating the surrounding narrative to suit an order in which the tale of the Hydra follows that of the lion.

Hydra creatures in culture
The Hydra is represented in many statues and sculptures, often battling Hercules. There are several statues portraying the battle between the two at the Louvre.

Answer 2

The Hydra was a multi-headed dragon-like monster which was the offspring of Echidna and Typhon (the same parentage as the Nemean Lion.)

It lived in Lake Lerna and it was here that the Greek hero Herakles, (Hercules in the Latin), completed one of his twelve labours - killing the Hydra.

After a long and bloody fight of chopping off the Hydra's many heads Herakles was at a loss - from every severed neck would grow two new heads! Accompianying Herakles at the time was his young cousin Iolus and it was his idea to singe the severed necks to stop any heads from growing back.

After the death of the Hydra Herakles dipped his arrows in the Hydra's blood as it served as the strongest poison.

Answer 3

Greek Mythology.. Herakles battled the Hydra a nine-headed water snake which lived in the marshes.

Answer 4

Only cause I'm too lazy to send you the wiki version, a hydra was a multi-headed monster. If you chopped off one of it's heads, two more would replace it. I believe Hercules killed it by tricking it into eating some fried spam, causing it to die of severe indigestion.

Answer 5

The Hydra was the oceans version of a seven headed dragon that Hercules had to fight as one of his labours.

Answer 6

The Lernean Hydra was a many-headed serpent which Heracles was ordered to kill, but whenever he severed one of the heads, two new heads sprouted from the neck, and he could only kill it after his companion burnt the stumps of the neck immediately after it was hacked off.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra

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