What this rambling excursion is trying to suggest is that the Hydra venom is woven through the tapestry of Greek myth, from beginning to end, like a serpentine thread. The painful symmetry of its final use to end the Trojan War and bring down the curtain on the Olympian Age—gods, heroes, and all—calls to mind the ouroboros: the serpent that eats its own tail. Typhon was to have his revenge after all.
