{"id":574,"date":"2020-07-27T16:44:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T16:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2020-07-27T16:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T16:44:30","slug":"hydra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/hydra\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hydra<\/strong>, also called\u00a0the Lernean Hydra<\/strong>, in Greek\u00a0legend, the offspring of\u00a0Typhon\u00a0and\u00a0Echidna\u00a0(according to the early Greek poet\u00a0Hesiod\u2019s\u00a0Theogony<\/em>), a gigantic water-snake-like monster with nine heads (the number varies), one of which was immortal. The monster\u2019s haunt was the marshes of Lerna, near\u00a0\u00c1rgos, from which he periodically emerged to harry the people and livestock of Lerna. Anyone who attempted to behead the Hydra found that as soon as one head was cut off, two more heads would emerge from the fresh wound.<\/p>\n

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Heracles (Hercules) battling the Lernaean Hydra; at the southern entrance to the Hofburg (Imperial Palace) in Vienna.<\/span>\u00a9 v0v\/Fotolia<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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BRITANNICA QUIZ<\/div>\n
A Study of Greek and Roman Mythology<\/div>\n
What animal did Androcles help by removing a thorn from its paw?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The destruction of the Lernean Hydra became one of the 12 Labours of\u00a0<\/span>Heracles. For that and other labours, Heracles enlisted the aid of his nephew\u00a0<\/span>Iolaus. As Heracles severed each mortal head, Iolaus was set to the task of cauterizing the fresh wounds so that no new heads would emerge. When only the immortal head remained, Heracles cut it off too and buried it under a heavy rock. Further, he dipped his arrows in the beast\u2019s poisonous blood (or venom) to be able to inflict fatal wounds. According to\u00a0Sophocles\u00a0(Trachinian Women<\/em>), that measure eventually caused his own accidental death at the hands of his wife, Deianeira.<\/p>\n

In modern English,\u00a0hydra<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0hydra-headed<\/em>\u00a0can describe a difficult or multifarious situation. The name\u00a0hydra<\/em>\u00a0has been assigned to a genus of invertebrate freshwater animals having a circlet of 4 to 25 tentacles on one end of its tubelike body.<\/p>\n

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Hydra, also called\u00a0the Lernean Hydra, in Greek\u00a0legend, the offspring of\u00a0Typhon\u00a0and\u00a0Echidna\u00a0(according to the early Greek poet\u00a0Hesiod\u2019s\u00a0Theogony), a gigantic water-snake-like monster with nine heads (the number varies), one of which was immortal. The monster\u2019s haunt was the marshes of Lerna, near\u00a0\u00c1rgos, from which he periodically emerged to harry the people and livestock of Lerna. Anyone who attempted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[401],"tags":[1925,1931,1917,1942,1959,1948,1953,1936,1918,1940,1933,1927,1924,1929,1939,1922,1943,1958,1935,1926,1913,1954,1934,1956,1915,1955,1914,1941,1930,1957,1916,1937,1919,1944,1952,1938,1947,1921,1945,1951,1950,1932,1960,1920,1923,1928,1946,1961,1949],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}