Archaeologists in Iran have uncovered a rare motif on Elymaean rock relief that may echo the Hercules–Hydra myth seen on ...
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Why is the hydra so hard to kill?

The Lernaean Hydra was one of the most dangerous creatures in Greek mythology, a massive serpent with multiple heads that could regenerate when cut off. Each time Hercules severed a head, two more ...
Greek mythology guides the naming convention for Pluto’s two most recently identified moons, more may be discovered when the New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto in July 2015. Tonight marks the ...
In days of old, when students studied Greek Mythology instead of feminist mythology, they learned about the greatest hero of them all, Heracles, more popularly (using the word loosely today) known by ...
IN Greek mythology it was a multi-headed monster to be feared – but the modern-day Hydra could now prove to be a major money-saving technological boon to schools and universities across Wales. IN ...
The late great Canadian poet and singer, Leonard Cohen's Bird on a Wire perfectly captured the freedom-seeking zeitgeist of the 1960s. It wasn't written in Haight Ashbury or Kathmandu or even Goa, but ...