In classical Greece, Lerna (Greek: Λέρνη) was a region of springs and a former lake near the east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos.Even though much of the area is marshy, Lerna is located on a geographically narrow point between mountains and the sea, along an ancient route from the Argolid to the southern Peloponnese; this location may have resulted in the …

En la mitología griega, la Hidra de Lerna (Λερναῖα Ὕδρα / Lernaīa Hýdra) era un antiguo y despiadado monstruo acuático ctónico con forma de serpiente policéfala (cuyo número de cabezas va desde tres, cinco, siete o nueve hasta cien, e incluso diez mil según la fuente) y aliento venenoso a la que Hércules mató en el segundo de sus doce trabajos. [2]

A Hidra de Lerna (em grego clássico: Ὕδρα), na mitologia grega, era um monstro, filho de Tifão e Equidna, [1] que habitava um pântano junto ao lago de Lerna, na Argólida, hoje o que equivaleria à costa leste da região do Peloponeso. [2] A Hidra tinha corpo de dragão [2] e várias cabeças de serpente. [1] [2] Segundo a lenda, as cabeças da Hidra podiam se regenerar; algumas ...

In de Griekse mythologie is de Hydra van Lerna (Oudgrieks: Λερναία Ὕδρα) een veelkoppig, slang- of draakachtig chtonisch monster dat huisde in het meer van Lerna, in Argolis. Herakles (of Hercules) versloeg deze dochter van Echidna en Typhon met de hulp van zijn neef Iolaos als een van zijn twaalf werken.Het verslaan van de Hydra werd nog bemoeilijkt doordat Hera een grote …

Greeks did not always clearly distinguish the Minyans from the Pelasgian cultures that had preceded them. Greek mythographers gave the Minyans an eponymous founder, Minyas, perhaps as legendary as Pelasgus (the founding father of the Pelasgians), which was a broader category of pre-Greek Aegean peoples. These Minyans were associated with Boeotian Orchomenus, as …

Gustave Moreau (París, 6 de abril de 1826-París, 18 de abril de 1898) fue un pintor francés, precursor del simbolismo, y célebre por su estética decadente.Se formó en el Romanticismo, y con un profundo conocimiento de los pintores italianos del Renacimiento, desarrolló un estilo personal con el que se anticipó al simbolismo francés a finales del siglo XIX.

The Irano-Afghan race or Iranid race is an obsolete term for a physical type most common among populations native to the Iranian plateau. The Irano-Afghan type was classified as belonging to the greater and also obsolete Caucasian race.It was usually associated with the obsolete Mediterranean racial subtype, depending on the authority consulted.

The Hydra lived in the lake of Lerna in the Argolis. The lake itself is older even than the Mycenaean city of Argos. Lerna was also the site of the myth of the Danaids. The second of the 12 labors of Hercules was to kill the Hydra. The monster also had one immortal head that was in the middle. All of the heads could spit deadly acid.

Micene (in greco: Μυκήνες, Mykīnes) è un ex comune della Grecia nella periferia del Peloponneso di 4.349 abitanti secondo i dati del censimento 2001.. È stato soppresso a seguito della riforma amministrativa detta Programma Callicrate in vigore dal gennaio 2011 ed è ora compreso nel comune di Argo-Micene.. Storia

The Third Siege of Missolonghi (Greek: Τρίτη Πολιορκία του Μεσσολογίου, often erroneously referred to as the second siege) was fought in the Greek War of Independence, between the Ottoman Empire and the Greek rebels, from 15 April 1825 to 10 April 1826. The Ottomans had already tried and failed to capture the city in 1822 and 1823, but returned in 1825 with a ...