Lerna (Region of the Lernaean Hydra) from Space In classical
Greece, Lerna was a region of springs and a former lake near the
east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos. It is most
famous as the lair of the Lernaean Hydra, the chthonic many-
headed water snake, a creature of great antiquity when Heracles
killed it, as the second of his labors. The geographer Strabo
attests that the Lernaean waters were considered healing "Lake
Lerna, the scene of the story of the Hydra, lies in Argeia and
the Mycenaean territory; and on account of the cleansings that
take place in it there arose a proverb, 'A Lerna of ills.' Now
writers agree that the county has plenty of water, and that,
although the city itself lies in a waterless district, it has an
abundance of wells. These wells they ascribe to the daughters of
Danaus, believing that they discovered them ... but they add
that four of the wells not only were designated as sacred but
are especially revered, thus introducing the false notion that
there is a lack of water