Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Second Labor: The Lernaean Hydra
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (many-headed Hydra; Iolaus’s firebrands; Hera’s crab; arrows poisoned in the gall)
• Cancer: The Crab of the Lernaean Hydra (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Heracles’s Second Labor · Catasterismic handbook — crab sent by Hera, placed as Cancer

Places appearing with them

• Lerna
• Mycenae
• Olympus
• Path of the sun
• Springs of Amymone

Themes

• Abduction
• Succession
• Theft
• War