No, dragons were different creatures. A hydra is a snake with nine heads. If you cut of one head, two grow back. Heracles killed the hyrdra, then dipped his arrows in its poisonous blood. He defeated it by cuting off one head then burning the stump.
The Hydra in Greek mythology had nine heads.
Hydra from greek mythology?
the hydra
Hydra was a many headed serpent in Greek mythology
The monster you are referring to is the Hydra. The Hydra is a child of Typhon and Echida.
Ὕδρα.
It was a hydra.
Hercules killed the Hydra in Greek mythology by cutting off its heads, and then cauterizing the neck stumps to prevent them from growing back.
Smaug - from The Hobbit by JRR Toilken. Puff - from Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter Paul and Mary The Midgard Serpent - from Norse mythology. Leviathan - from Christian mythology Fafnir - from the Wagner Ring Cycle Hydra - from Greek mythology. The dragon killed by Saint George
Well the Hydra is a dragon is some versions and a serpentine creature... I don't know if he counts as a snake though.
A scaled dragon with wings would be a drakon in Greek mythology.
In the swamps of Lerna in underworld