Educational Maria Angelidou material included Lernaean he T Hydra At the time when the Earth was still young, it was up to the heroes to carry out the most difficult, or even impossible tasks. And first among them was Hercules, who set himself against the Lernaean Hydra: The Floodwater, who had countless heads, all of which were cruel beasts – from the first to the very last, the most terrible, the immortal one. And he defeated them all. THE LERNAEAN HYDRA This series offers a new reading of the ancient Greek myths. They are not old, worn-out stories, but gripping tales of timeless human adventures, containing all the fears and joys that have marked and continue to mark the human soul. Maria Angelidou T H E Illustrated by ISBN: 978-618-03-1444-1 Iris Samartzi L A B O U AUXIL. COMPU. CODE 81444 R S OF HERCULES 9737_The Lernaean Hydra_CV.indd 1 20/02/2018 13:33 hen the world was still young, the WEarth and Water would go to sleep together and wake up in each other’s arms. At night, islands, oceans, continents and lakes would fall asleep, and in the morning, mountains and waterfalls and seas and endless plains would get up. Water and earth were all tangled up together. If that was not enough, all the gods would send their floods to the north, south, east and west, one after the other: some to drown enemy gods, some the whole world, some only the people. Look at Deucalion and Pyrrha’s flood, or Dardanos’, or Noah’s… The world should really have been called ‘Flood’. WORDSEARCH 1. The goddess who helped Hercules. 2. The goddess who made Hercules’ life difficult. 3. The beast had this many heads. 4. Hercules’ assistant in this myth. 5. The main city near the lake of Lerna. 6. The mother of the Lernaean Hydra. 7. The middle head of the Lernaean Hydra was… 8. Hercules’ assistant burned the heads by holding flaming… ANSWERS: 1. Athena, 2. Hera, 3. Nine, 4. Iolaos, 5. Argos, 6. Echidna, 7. Immortal, 8. Arrows Educational Maria Angelidou material included Lernaean he T Hydra At the time when the Earth was still young, it was up to the heroes to carry out the most difficult, or even impossible tasks. And first among them was Hercules, who set himself against the Lernaean Hydra: The Floodwater, who had countless heads, all of which were cruel beasts – from the first to the very last, the most terrible, the immortal one. And he defeated them all. THE LERNAEAN HYDRA This series offers a new reading of the ancient Greek myths. They are not old, worn-out stories, but gripping tales of timeless human adventures, containing all the fears and joys that have marked and continue to mark the human soul. Maria Angelidou T H E Illustrated by ISBN: 978-618-03-1444-1 Iris Samartzi L A B O U AUXIL. COMPU. CODE 81444 R S OF HERCULES 9737_The Lernaean Hydra_CV.indd 1 20/02/2018 13:33.