* The Lernaean Hydra, another one of Typhon's daughters, terrorized a spring at the lake of Lerna, near Argos, slaying anyone and anything that approached her lair with her noxious venom, save for a monstrous crab that was her companion.

Caskey also stated that Lerna ( along with settlements at Tiryns, Asine in the Argolid, Agios Kosmas near Athens, and perhaps Corinth ) was destroyed at the end of Early Helladic II.

The Hydra of Lerna was killed by Heracles as the second 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 since Lerna was the site of the myth of the Danaids.

Heracles placed it under a great rock on the sacred way between Lerna and Elaius ( Kerenyi 1959: 144 ), and dipped his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood, and so his second task was complete.

In classical Greece, Lerna () was a region of springs and a former lake near the east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos.

Lerna was one of the entrances to the Underworld, and the ancient Lernaean Mysteries, sacred to Demeter, were celebrated there.

At Lerna, Plutarch knew ( Isis and Osiris ), Dionysus was summoned as " Bugenes ", " son of the Bull " with a strange archaic trumpet called a salpinx, while a lamb was cast into the waters as an offering for the " Keeper of the Gate.

" The keeper of the gate to the Underworld that lay in the waters of Lerna was the Hydra.

Lerna was occupied in Neolithic times, as early as the fifth millennium BCE, then was abandoned for a time before the sequence of occupation from the Early Bronze Age ( Helladic period through the Mycenaean ).

Lerna has one of the largest prehistoric tumuli of Greece, accumulated during a long Neolithic occupation ; then its crest was levelled and extended — as at Early Helladic Eutresis and Orchomenus — in a new settlement: this stratum, called Lerna III in the site's stratigraphy, corresponds with Early Helladic II at other sites.

Though five stages of occupation at Lerna have been identified, the site of " House of the Tiles ", after it had been destroyed by fire, was not rebuilt upon, whether through respect or fear, until, at the end of the Middle Helladic period, shaft graves were cut into the tumulus of the House of Tiles, indicating that the significance of that monument had been forgotten.

Modern geological techniques such as core drilling have identified the site of the vanished sacred Lake Lerna, which was a freshwater lagoon, separated by barrier dunes from the Aegean.

This statue of Hercules slaying the Hydra of Lerna was originally in the castle of Vaudreuil, and is now at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.

Hercules placed it under a great rock on the sacred way between Lerna and Elaius ( Kerenyi 1959: 144 ), and dipped his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood, and so his second task was complete.

At least three natural harbors of Spetses ( Saint Marina, Saint Paraskevi and Zogeria ) served as a refuge for ships carrying goods to and from the Argolis Gulf during the peak of the State of Lerna ( about 2300 BC ).

Roof tiles were also occasionally employed, as at early Helladic Lerna and Akovitika, and later in the Mycenaean towns of Gla and Midea.

Lake Lerna, the scene of the story of the Hydra, lies in Argeia and the Mycenaean territory ; and on account of the cleansings that take place in it there arose a proverb, ' A Lerna of ills.

They are found in the late Neolithic ( about 3500 BCE ) at Thessaly, Kastanas, Lerna and Dimini.

As Io tells her own story in Aeschylus ' Prometheus Bound, she rejected his whispered nighttime advances until the oracles caused her own father to drive her out into the fields of Lerna.

At the Alcyonian Lake near the prehistoric site of Lerna, Dionysus, guided by Prosymnus or Polymnus, descended to Tartarus to free his once-mortal mother.

Forty-nine followed through, and subsequently buried the heads of their bridegrooms in Lerna ; but one, Hypermnestra, refused because her husband, Lynceus, honored her wish to remain a virgin.

One of them, Amymone, in her search lay with Poseidon, and he revealed to her the springs at Lerna.

To possess her himself, the god revealed the springs of Lerna, a cult site of great antiquity near the shores of the Argolid.

Amymone / Hypermnestra is represented with a water pitcher, a reminder of the sacred springs and lake of Lerna and of the copious wells that made Argos the " well-watered " and, by contrast, a reminder that her sisters were forever punished in Tartarus for their murderous crimes by fruitlessly drawing water in pitchers with open bases.

He lived either at Mycenae or near the lake Lerna in Peloponessus.

They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers, and the very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes, such as pre-Mycenaean Lerna in the Argolid.

In places like Lerna their waters ' ritual cleansings were credited with magical medical properties.

When John L. Caskey of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens outlined the results of his excavations at Lerna from 1952 up until 1958, he stated that the hallmarks of Middle Helladic culture ( i. e. Gray Minyan ware and the fast potter's wheel ) may have originated from Early Helladic III.

In fact, the layers of destruction Caskey found at Lerna and Tiryns were ultimately attributed to fire.

Upon reaching the swamp near Lake Lerna, where the Hydra dwelt, Heracles covered his mouth and nose with a cloth to protect himself from the poisonous fumes.

Lerna is a village in Coles County, Illinois, United States.

Lerna is located at ( 39. 417943 ,-88. 288957 ).

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