Dwayne Johnson's Hercules faces his second labour - the four-headed Lernean Hydra - in a new clip from the action blockbuster. Hercules, directed by Brett Ratner, is based on the comic book by ...

"In the right lower corner is the depiction of a curving snake with many heads," a mythical beast called a Hydra, wrote Malay and Ertugrul. In ancient mythology, the god Hercules battled a Hydra ...

This was a detailed description of the whole Hercules v. the hydra myth (including the part most people forget, where Hercules' nephew deals with the hydra's severed heads). REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski ...

This time, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to kill the Lernean Hydra. This was a monstrous nine-headed snake that lived in the swamps of Lerna. It was not an easy matter to kill this snake.