Reapplying methods from the start of the war now could yield even better results. While the Lernaean Hydra would grow two or three equally strong heads in place of each severed one, in the case of ...

Ladon and the Lernaean Hydra of ancient Greece, Apophis of ancient Egypt, and so forth. Where dragon mythologies diverge on an East/West basis is in the concept of good versus evil. In Western ...

An aerial view of the Greek island of Hydra. Credit: dronepicr/Wikimedia commons/CC BY 2.0 I remember growing up on Hydra every summer in the 1980s, leaving my Salt Lake City, Utah home, to go to our ...