Heracles, assisted by his nephew Iolaos, fights the Lernaean Hydra, using a battle tactic that schol
Heracles, assisted by his nephew Iolaos, fights the Lernaean Hydra, using a battle tactic that scholars of ancient military history have dubbed “hitting it with a club a lot”. Etruscan black-figure hydria, ca. 525 BCE; now in the Getty Villa, Malibu. Photo credit: Wolfgang Sauber. -- source link
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