Timeline for How many heads did the Hydra originally have?
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| Jul 20, 2016 at 16:19 | comment | added | femtoRgon | "Hesiod ... says only many heads." I've seen this claim around, but I couldn't find the source of it, myself. Do you know where it comes from? At Theogony 313, the hydra bit is preceded by Cerberus, and succeeded by Chimaera, both of which are stated to have multiple heads, but I don't see any such statement about the Hydra. Am I missing something? | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 1:34 | history | answered | Ken Graham | CC BY-SA 3.0 |