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However, Nessus is true to the archetype of the mischievous centaur and tries to steal Deianira away while Heracles is still in the water.
One of the figurations assumed by the river god Achelous in wooing Deianira is as a man with the head of a bull, according to Sophocles ' Trachiniai.
Deianira is the daughter of Althaea and Oeneus (" wine-man " and thus civilized ), the king of Calydon, and the sister of Meleager.
In another version of her tale, Deianira is instead the daughter of Dexamenus, king of Olenus.
However, Deianira reminds him how he is dressed in feminine attire and Iole is wearing his clothing while carrying his club.
According to Seneca, Deianira is concerned if the captive Iole that Heracles took as his concubine will give brothers to her sons.
Heracles is moved to tears by Meleager's account ; Meleager has left his sister Deianira unwedded in his father's house, and entreats Heracles to take her as bride ; here Bacchylides breaks off his account of the meeting, without noting that in this way Heracles in the Underworld chooses a disastrous wife.

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In Greek mythology, the Heracleidae () or Heraclids were the numerous descendants of Heracles ( Hercules ), especially applied in a narrower sense to the descendants of Hyllus, the eldest of his four sons by Deianira ( Hyllus was also sometimes thought of as Heracles ' son by Melite ( naiad ).
In Greek mythology, Hyllus ( Ὕλλος ) ( also Hyllas ) was the son of Heracles and Deianira, husband of Iole, nursed by Abia.

Deianira and Greek
In Greek mythology, Lichas () was Hercules ' servant, who brought the poisoned shirt from Deianira to Hercules because of her jealousy of Iole, killing him.
It was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on December 1, 1875 and named after the warlike princess Deianira in Greek mythology.

Deianira and mythology
Heracles, Deianira and Nessus ( mythology ) | Nessus, black-figure hydria, 575-550 BC, Louvre ( E 803 )

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A wild centaur named Nessus attempted to kidnap Deianira as he was ferrying her across the river Euenos, but she was rescued by Heracles, who shot the centaur with a poisoned arrow.
Deianira believed his words and kept a little of the potion by her.
In despair, Deianira committed suicide by hanging herself or with a sword.
Deianira, being concerned by Heracles's infidelity, believed Nessus ’ lie that Heracles would no longer desire any other woman after he was under the spell of the love philter.
He explains how Deianira thinks of the possible children of Hercules by Iole and her chance for vengeance on them.

Deianira and Heracles
His third marriage was to Deianira, for whom he had to fight the river god Achelous ( upon Achelous ' death, Heracles removed one of his horns and gave it to some nymphs who turned it into the cornucopia.
) Soon after they wed, Heracles and Deianira had to cross a river, and a centaur named Nessus offered to help Deianira across but then attempted to rape her.
As he lay dying, Nessus plotted revenge, told Deianira to gather up his blood and spilled semen and, if she ever wanted to prevent Heracles from having affairs with other women, she should apply them to his vestments.
Later, when Deianira suspected that Heracles was fond of Iole, she soaked a shirt of his in the mixture, creating the poisoned shirt of Nessus.
Having wrestled and defeated Achelous, god of the Acheloos river, Heracles takes Deianira as his wife.
Travelling to Tiryns, a centaur, Nessus, offers to help Deianira across a fast flowing river while Heracles swims it.
Several years later, rumor tells Deianira that she has a rival for the love of Heracles.
Deianira, remembering Nessus ' words, gives Heracles the bloodstained shirt.
As he lay dying, Nessus tricked Deianira, telling her that a mixture of olive oil and his heart's blood would ensure that Heracles would never again be unfaithful.
When Deianira thus feared that her husband would leave her forever, she smeared some of the blood on Heracles ' famous lionskin shirt.
Deianira, wife of Heracles.
After the archery contest, Heracles went to Calydon where on the steps of the temple Heracles saw Deianira, Prince Meleager's sister.
Heracles forgot about Iole, at least for the time being, as Deianira was a prospect for his new children that he very much wanted.
Deianira feared she would lose Heracles to the younger and more beautiful Iole.

Deianira and .
The Renaissance art holdings include Giambologna's bronze Nessus and Deianira and the tapestry Maximillian's Hunt.
Deianira was not passive, however.
" This Deianira drove a chariot and practiced the art of war ", noted the Bibliotheca ( book i, 8: 1 ), but she wanted nothing to do with her suitor, who was able to take the form of a speckled serpent, a bull-headed man, or a bull.
The central story of Deianira, however, concerns the Tunic of Nessus.

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It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.
Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.
At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.
In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.
He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.
The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.
Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.
The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.
It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.
but there is also compassion.
also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.
And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.
By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.
he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.
it is true that they are also extremely dull.
Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.
But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.
Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.
`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.
Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

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