Heracles defeated the Hydra by cutting off its heads and cauterizing the neck stumps to prevent them from regrowing.
For every head cut off, the hydra gows two more. To counteract this, Heracles burned each stump of a head.
Lernean Hydra.
He cut off its heads, but he had to burn them so they don't come back{he had help from his nephew]. After he killed it, he dipped his arrows in its blood so they are so poisonus that they can kill someone just by scratching them.
No, Heracles did not kill his father Zeus.
Heracles defeated the Hydra by cutting off its heads and cauterizing the neck stumps to prevent them from regrowing.
Heracles
For every head cut off, the hydra gows two more. To counteract this, Heracles burned each stump of a head.
By most accounts, Lerna was near one of the entrances to the Underworld and the Hydra was placed to guard it.In later accounts, the Hydra was raised by Hera specifically to kill Heracles, and it's placement was more incidental.
Lernean Hydra.
Hercules/Heracles killed the Nemean Lion and the Hydra.
Cuts of it's head one by one and used his burning hot club to seal the neck so no new heads can grow.
The Lernean Hydra is killed by Heracles in his second of twelve labors. However why the Hydra is killed is never fully explained.
heracles fought him in a battle so heracles would be one but i also know that the hydra fought with him in battles
He cut off its heads, but he had to burn them so they don't come back{he had help from his nephew]. After he killed it, he dipped his arrows in its blood so they are so poisonus that they can kill someone just by scratching them.
In Greek mythology, the Hydra was a serpent-like creature slain by the hero Hercules as one of his Twelve Labors. After its defeat, the Hydra was placed in the sky as a constellation to honor the mythological tale of Hercules' triumph over the beast.
He fought a hydra, a lion, a horse, a cerberus, a crab and a pig.