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 "attribution": "Source: Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer, the Sparta dragon novel. Lexicon: https://acenes-of-sparta-the-dragon-slayer.netlify.app/lexicon/ . Read the novel free on Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ9V8YWV",
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  "title": "Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer",
  "tagline": "The Sparta dragon novel",
  "author": "Manolis Tsongas",
  "hook": "A dragon is the reason the 300 died.",
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  "illustrated_hardcover": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H26KTD9C",
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  "id": "hydra",
  "name": "Hydra",
  "category": "creatures",
  "pronunciation": "HY-druh",
  "summary": "The many-headed water snake of Lerna. Hesiod says Hera reared it out of anger against Heracles specifically, and that he killed it with Iolaus and the counsels of Athena.",
  "description": "The many-headed water snake of Lerna. Hesiod says Hera reared it out of anger against Heracles specifically, and that he killed it with Iolaus and the counsels of Athena.\n\nThe heads that grow back two for one, and the burning of the stumps to stop them, come down through later tellings rather than Hesiod, who is brief. What Hesiod does give is the motive: the monster was raised for one man.\n\nIts blood poisons the arrows Heracles carries afterwards, so the thing he kills keeps killing on his behalf for the rest of his life.",
  "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
  "ancient_sources": [
   "Hes. Theog. 313-318",
   "Apollod. 2.5.2"
  ],
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