CLA 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 52: Greek Mythology, Deianira
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You don"t kill the guardian of the underworld he has a very important task keeping the boundaries between living and dead, so hercules can"t just kill him he just brings him back. Heracles is defeated by women eros, erotic desire, the conqueror of fearsome monsters is killed by the misplaced love of his wife, deianeira. She stashes in a corner in their house until heracles comes back with. Deianaira hands hercules over robe that was smeared with the mixture. Byblis fell in love with her brother, iphys was bron a girl but her father wanted her to become a boy so her mother raised her as a boyorpheus, the ethereal master musician, comes from cold, northern (barbarian?) Like any mortal he is subject do doubt, he lacks the self-discipline to overcome his own internal fears, he does not have the blustering confidence of a heracles.
