ONE of the best known depictions of snakes in Greek mythology features Medusa and her Gorgon sisters, who had a head of snakes instead of hair, and could turn people into stone if you looked them in the eye.
> The nine-headed Lernaean Hydra was a monstrous creature that Hercules defeated as part of his 12 labours. Legend has it that if you cut off one of its heads, the Hydra would grow two heads in place of the missing one.
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