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Heracles and the Hydra on the pumping station
June 2025 Probable
By June 2025 at the latest, artists including ZEM tattoo from Nafplio had painted a large mural on the 1960 pumping station: Heracles fighting the Hydra, a Pegasus, and a warning text ending with a line from Sophocles. The exact year and the commissioner are not known.
Read the full story: From spring to pump: how the water of Lerna made Myloi
- Where
- Springs of Lerna
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- Water and mills, Village life
- Certainty
- Probable likely, but not fully proven
Pictures
The 1960 pumping station of Lerna on the Argos–Tripoli road in Myloi, with its sign of the Kefalari–Argos irrigation board and the mural of Heracles and the Hydra. Visit Myloi
Sources
- Google Street View, June 2025
- Street Art Cities, "Hercules & Hydra of Lerna" Open (opens in a new tab)
Also in this period
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2003
Argos gets drinking water from Lerna
Around 2003 Argos also began to take drinking water from the springs at Myloi, about 500 m³ an hour through a pipeline of 10 km. One source gives 2005 instead.
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2008
The spring weakens in summer
In the summer of 2008 the spring of Lerna gave less than 400 m³ an hour, a fraction of its old flow of around a thousand litres a second.
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2009
Some 570 boreholes around the springs
In 2009 the geologist P. Ntontos wrote that the shared irrigation networks of Kefalari and Myloi had been neglected and were largely out of use. In the Myloi–Skafidaki–Kefalari area almost everything was now watered from…
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10 January 2009
The bell from Winnipeg rings all day
Jim Ganas had given a church bell to the church of the Twelve Apostles in Myloi. When the news came that he had died in Headingley, Canada, on 10 January 2009, the bell was rung all through the day.