Lerna
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the shore of Lerna
in the texts
Ion
Marsh associated with the Hydra slain by Heracles, depicted in the temple carvings.
here is the son of Zeus killing with his scimitar of gold the watersnake of Lerna.
Phoenissae
Marshland near Argos, recurring toponym associated with the Argive enemy.
Go to Argos, and invoke the waters of Lerna.
by Lerna’s streams he dwells, the lord Hippomedon.
This is the man who says he will give the Theban girls as captives of his spear to the women of Mycenae, to Lerna’s trident, and the waters of Amymone, dear to Poseidon, when he has them enslaved.
Olympian
Site from which Apollo directs Tlepolemus to sail to Rhodes.
To him the golden-haired god spoke, from his fragrant sanctuary, of a voyage by ship from the shore of Lerna straight to the pasture land with sea all around it, where once the great king of the gods showered the city with golden snow, when, by the skills of Hephaestus with the bronze-forged hatchet, Athena leapt from the top of her father’s head and cried aloud with a mighty shout.