CLAS 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Deianira, Peisistratos, Egeus

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Classical Culture
• Course: CLAS 1020
• Professor: Bianchelli

Document Summary

12 labors a response to heracles killing his wife and three children - put himself under jurisdiction of evil" cousin. They make heracles laugh and because of his sense of humor he eventually lets them go. Dispute of heracles and apollo for the delphic tripod. Heracles takes away apollo"s tripod - apollo had to run after him to get his stool back. Heracles with his wife deianira - they had to cross a river and a centaur nessus (carries people to other side of river). Heracles walked by himself and his wife cross with. Nessus tried to rape her - heracles took an arrow and wounded him. Arrow was dipped in the blood of the hydra - very poisonous. Before nessus died - he told deianira that she should take the hydra blood and use it to make sure heracles does not love someone else.