The Hydra had many parallels in ancient Near Eastern religions. 500 BC show it with a double tail as well as multiple heads, suggesting the same regenerative ability at work, but no literary accounts have this feature. Palaephatus, Ovid, and Diodorus Siculus concur with Euripides, while Servius has the Hydra grow back three heads each time the Suda does not give a number. In the Euthydemus of Plato, Socrates likens Euthydemus and his brother Dionysidorus to a Hydra of a sophistical nature who grows two arguments for every one refuted. The first mention of this ability of the Hydra occurs with Euripides, where the monster grew back a pair of heads for each one severed by Heracles. Like the initial number of heads, the monster's capacity to regenerate lost heads varies with time and author. Heraclitus the Paradoxographer rationalized the myth by suggesting that the Hydra would have been a single-headed snake accompanied by its offspring. Simonides, writing a century later, increased the number to fifty, while Euripides, Virgil, and others did not give an exact figure. While these fibulae portray a six-headed Hydra, its number of heads was first fixed in writing by Alcaeus (c. In both these sources, the main motifs of the Hydra myth are already present: a multi-headed serpent that is slain by Heracles and Iolaus. The oldest extant Hydra narrative appears in Hesiod's Theogony, while the oldest images of the monster are found on a pair of bronze fibulae dating to c. Heracles required the assistance of his nephew Iolaus to cut off all of the monster's heads and burn the neck using a sword and fire. Later versions of the Hydra story add a regeneration feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow two heads. The Hydra possessed many heads, the exact number of which varies according to the source. It had poisonous breath and blood so virulent that even its scent was deadly. Īccording to Hesiod, the Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna. In the canonical Hydra myth, the monster is killed by Heracles ( Hercules) as the second of his Twelve Labors. Lerna was reputed to be an entrance to the Underworld, and archaeology has established it as a sacred site older than Mycenaean Argos. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid, which was also the site of the myth of the Danaïdes. The Lernaean Hydra or Hydra of Lerna ( Greek: Λερναῖα Ὕδρα, Lernaîa Hýdra), more often known simply as the Hydra, is a serpentine water monster in Greek and Roman mythology. She is able to spit acid and her blood is poisonous.Gustave Moreau's 19th-century depiction of the Hydra, influenced by the Beast from the Book of Revelation She is also said to be extremely venomous, killing someone with a single scent of her breath. The Hydra's most potent ability is the power to regrow any head that is cut off, with twice as many in its place. Hercules also had filled a vile with Hydra blood, and dipped his arrows in it. Both monsters were made into a constellation by the grieving Hera. When only one head remained, - the immortal one,- Heracles buried the still living one-headed Hydra under a large boulder. Hera sent a large crab, Karkinos (Cancer), to distract Heracles while he fought the Hydra, nipping his feet. Heracles sought the help of his nephew, Iolaus, who came up with the idea of burning the stumps of the severed heads, stopping the poison blood flow, causing her heads to stop returning. When she exited, he killed three heads with his club, but found that two more grew back each time one was killed. Out came the hydra, gnashing her teeth and spitting acid. At his arrival to the cave that the beast swelled in, the hero threw a flaming branch into it. She terrorized with place quite often, and Hercules was sent to kill her as the second of his impossible labors. The Hydra guarded an entrance to the Underworld at a swamp near Lake Lerna at the time of her death. The Hydra was born to Ekhidna and Typhon.
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