No, dragons were different creatures. A hydra is a snake with nine heads. If you cut of one head, two grow back. Heracles killed the hyrdra, then dipped his arrows in its poisonous blood. He defeated it by cuting off one head then burning the stump.
Hydra from greek mythology?
the hydra
Hydra was a many headed serpent in Greek mythology
The monster you are referring to is the Hydra. The Hydra is a child of Typhon and Echida.
Ὕδρα.
Smaug - from The Hobbit by JRR Toilken. Puff - from Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter Paul and Mary The Midgard Serpent - from Norse mythology. Leviathan - from Christian mythology Fafnir - from the Wagner Ring Cycle Hydra - from Greek mythology. The dragon killed by Saint George
It was a hydra.
Well the Hydra is a dragon is some versions and a serpentine creature... I don't know if he counts as a snake though.
A scaled dragon with wings would be a drakon in Greek mythology.
In the swamps of Lerna in underworld
Greek mythology has no chronology in our sense.
The Lernean Hydra is killed by Heracles in his second of twelve labors. However why the Hydra is killed is never fully explained.