who knows anything about the Hydra?

Question

i need a list of some personality traits, habits, interesting facts, etc. about the Hydra from Greek mythology. any help would be great, especially with the personality traits and habits. thanks!

its for a school project and i dont care about your private parts.

and i know what it is, just not many details... as listed above...

and i dont want stuff copy and pasted of the internet. i can find that on my own.

Answer 1

Hydra (mythology), in Greek mythology, nine-headed monster that dwelled in a marsh near Lerna, Greece. A menace to all of Árgos, it had fatally poisonous breath and when one head was severed, grew two in its place; its central head was immortal. Hercules, sent to kill the serpent as the second of his 12 labors, succeeded in slaying it by burning off the eight mortal heads and burying the ninth, immortal head under a huge rock. The term hydra is commonly applied to any complex situation or problem that continually poses compounded difficulties.

Answer 2

Hydra In Greek Mythology

Answer 3

In Greek mythology, the Lernaean Hydra was an ancient serpent-like chthonic water beast that possessed numerous heads— 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 (Theogony, 313), noisome offspring of the earth goddess, Gaia. It was said to be the sibling of the Nemean Lion, the Chimaera and Cerberus.



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.




more about hydra

the offspring of Echidna (half maiden - half serpent), and Typhon (had 100 heads), other versions think that the Hydra was the offspring of Styx and the Titan Pallas. The Hydra had the body of a serpent and many heads (the number of heads deviates from five up to one hundred there are many versions but generally nine is accepted as standard), of which one could never be harmed by any weapon, and if any of the other heads were severed another would grow in its place (in some versions two would grow). Also the stench from the Hydra's breath was enough to kill man or beast (in other versions it was a deadly venom). When it emerged from the swamp it would attack herds of cattle and local villagers, devouring them with its numerous heads. It totally terrorized the vicinity for many years.

Answer 4

Hydra, The Lernaean. A huge serpent with nine heads (some accounts say seven; others say fifty) ; killed by Heracles as his second labor. As soon as one head was cut off, two more grew, until commanded his friend Violas to cauterize the wound with a hot iron. Hercules dipped his arrows in the venom of the Hydra and whoever was wounded with one of these arrows was doomed to die. One of these arrows wounded Chino; Philoctetes stepped on one of them; the death of Nessus by one of these poisoned arrows indirectly caused the death of Heracles himself.

Cite: Aeneid vi; Met. ix; Theogony; Pausanias v.

Answer 5

well to start of the hydra was a multiheaded serpent. one head was immortal. if you cut of a head 2 grew back in its place. as for personality it had none. the laernan hydra was just a ravenous destroyer until it was defeated by Hercules.

Answer 6

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