In ancient Greece Lerna stood in the northern part of the Greek Peloponnese, just a short distance south of Argos. This region of mountains and rocky cliff faces included some difficult to traverse terrain. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia reports in that era a large portion of the land outside Lerna fell within a region of bogs and marshes. The area contained springs and the remnants of a lake which had existed in this location previously.<\/p>\n
As a site, Lerna holds interest for archeologists today. References to this place in classical Greek mythology<\/a> have created interest in the Lerna area. In 1952, an archeological team led by John L. Caskey began excavating ruins in Lerna dating from the Bronze Age.<\/p>\n Wikipedia reports the area gained its greatest fame as the site of the den of the Lernean Hydra, a mythological monster<\/a>. The many-headed Hydra inspired terror in most people. It had resisted attempts to destroy it. The creature possessed nine serpent-shaped heads. Unless immediately subjected to burning, the location of each severed head would permit two new serpent heads to sprout. The Hydra had become a source of fear and terror to the people residing in Lerna.<\/p>\n The ancient Greeks believe a Greek hero called Hercules<\/a> finally succeeded in killing the Hydra. Descended from a human mother and the ancient Greek god Zeus<\/a>, Hercules possessed incredible strength. He could perform almost superhuman feats. In killing the Hydra, he won the gratitude of the local people of Lerna. Hercules performed a number of remarkable deeds during his life (sometimes described as the “labors of Hercules”.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In ancient Greece Lerna stood in the northern part of the Greek Peloponnese, just a short distance south of Argos. This region of mountains and rocky cliff faces included some difficult to traverse terrain. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia reports in that era a large portion of the land outside Lerna fell within a region of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/myths\/1280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/myths"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/myths"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/myths\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/myths\/1280\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Lerna And The Hydra<\/h3>\n