place
Lerna
The marsh whose many-headed Hydra Hercules killed with fire, the second labor; his arrows were steeped in its venom.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §864 the serpent fertile in death
The Hydra of Lerna, whose severed heads grew back until Hercules destroyed it.
- Hercules (Mad) §246 Lerna's savage monster
The Hydra of Lerna, the many-headed serpent Hercules killed with fire (a labor); its venom steeped his arrows.
- Thyestes §101 Lerna
A spring and marsh near Argos, home of the Hydra; here it shrinks back in the drought.