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The Labours of Heracles - Part Two
Illustrated by Gareth Pitchford |
Euryatheus
set Heracles his second task. He told Heracles to go and kill the Hydra.
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Heracles
and his friend Iolaus set out to hunt the Hydra. When they reached the
cave where it lived they saw that the Hydra was merely a large crocodile
like creature.
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Heracles
surprised the Hydra and chopped off its head with a mighty swing of
his sword.
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However
the Hydra didn't die. It grew two heads to replace the one that was
lost instead!
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Heracles
kept on chopping off the Hydra's heads. But for every one it chopped
off two more grew in its place. Soon the Hydra had a lot more heads
than it started out with!
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Heracles
had an idea. He knew how to stop the heads growing back. Each time he
sliced off a head...
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...his
friend Iolaus used a torch to burn the Hydra's neck so that the head
wouldn't grow back.
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Eventually
the Hydra was left without any heads and it was a simple task for Heracles
to kill it.
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