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 Greek Mythology and Ancient Greece - Heracles
Deianira, who had heard from Heracles of the wisdom of the centaurs, believed what Nessus told her.
Word came to Deianira that Oichalia was taken by Heracles, and that the king and his daughter Iole were held captive.
There Heracles and Deianira lived, and a son who was named Hyllos was born to them.
http://www.greekhistoryandmythology.com/Greek_Mythology/Heroes_of_Greek_Mythology/Heracles/15   (905 words)

  
 Heracles
The chorus of women tell Deianira to have faith in Zeus, who is not careless with his children.
Deianira is distressed because she has had no word of her husband's whereabouts, or even if he still lives.
She sees both Iole and Heracles as victims of a passion even the gods cannot resist.
http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/Heracles.html   (2863 words)

  
 arttrachherc
Deianira is not, as she emphasizes, a naive women about sexuality and she is aware of Herakles’ relations outside of the oikos.
But Hyllus informs her that the conquering Herakles has just arrived at nearby harbor and is making sacrifices prior to returning, but Lichas, a herald, misinforms Deianira about the identity of a captive girl being led into the house in the company of other enslaved women.
In the dominant tradition, however, it may have been Herakles who first requests the robe and who instructs Lichas to retrieve it from his wife: Apollod.
http://facstaff.unca.edu/drohner/awomlinks/artherktrach1.htm   (5162 words)

  
 story
Before Deianira and Heracles are married, the river Achelous, taking different forms, would ask Deianira’s father for her hand in marriage.
Lichas appears with the captive women of Oechalia to Deianira and Heracles’ home.
Especially since he has been gone for a whole year without any word from him.
http://www.ecsel.psu.edu/~acassel/text.htm   (2500 words)

  
 Pre-bonding
Should have expected that, Deianira berated herself, this is the home of the Xidavans and their demons.
Deianira looked up and realized it came from the demon.
The longer she had to spend in Ithgard, the more of a chance she would be recognized.
http://evilmeasel.tripod.com/deianira/id1.html   (1257 words)

  
 The Lords of the Clique: If you are going through hell, keep going
It is true that Deianira is a sweet, innocent and lovable character, alwasy caring about others, to the point that she is currently thinking of creating an organization to aid other unfortunate women who have to face the constant harassment of guys on Realm Chat.
As was mentioned before, members of the fairer sex is a rare commodity, and at first, the rest of the Clique was cluless about what to do with...
When she berserks, the sweet Deianira we know goes to sleep and Bison wakes up.
http://www.freewebs.com/lordsofclique/deianira.htm   (695 words)

  
 Deianira
Deianira (also Deianeira) was figure in Greek mythology, a Greek princess and wife of Heracles.
Deianira believed his words and, when she became uncertain if Heracles would remain true to her, smeared some of the blood on Heracles' famous hide shirt.
Her husband-to-be had to slay the cruel river god Achelous to win her hand in marriage.
http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/lookup/encyclopedia/de/Deianeira.html   (133 words)

  
 The Frick Collection: Education: School Partnerships
Hercules won his wife Deianira in a battle with a shape-changing river god.
What lessons does the myth teach, for example, about the dangers of jealousy?
Nessus’s muscles flex as Deianira twists against him in mid-air, pushing away with her right hand while reaching to the sky with her left as if begging the gods for help.
http://www.frick.org/education/looking_bologna.htm   (1444 words)

  
 Deianera by Evelyn de Morgan (1850-1919)
In Greek mythology Deianira was the daughter of Oenus, king of Calydon, and the sister of Meleager.
Heracles, one of the very few who penetrated the Underworld and returned, had heard of Deianira's beauty from the soul of her dead brother.
Nessus, in false remorse as he died, gave Deianira some of his own blood and told her that if ever Heracles's love for her should fail she had only to dip a garment of his in the blood to revive his feelings.
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/demorgan/wc/1.html   (425 words)

  
 The Women of Trachis
Hyllus reveals Deianira's mistake and requests that Heracles not burden him with patricide.
Lichas fesses up and says the cover-up was his, not Heracles' (90).
Deianira gives this long-stored robe to Lichas to take to Heracles.
http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/women_trachis.html   (550 words)

  
 Nessus (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heracles went to a gathering of heroes, where his passion got the better of him.
He was the son of Ixion and Nephele, the Cloud.
For other uses of the word "Nessus", please refer to Nessus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessus_(mythology)   (277 words)

  
 YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
Note that Nessus is depicted with one arm crossing Deianira’s belly.
The diaphanous drape across Deianira’s body almost disappears as it crosses the landscape but then reappears at right, where a fragment of the original still exists.
Deianira’s left arm and hand are bent back towards her body.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/collection/conservation/conservation_poll.html   (743 words)

  
 Paul Gadzikowski - King Arthur of Time and Space - One Child Born - Chapter 2
I'll tell you everything when we're through this."
Who does Morgan hate most in the universe?"
"Why are you doing this?" Deianira bit out.
http://www.iglou.com/members/scarfman/aocb2.htm   (1275 words)

  
 Paul Gadzikowski - King Arthur of Time and Space - One Child Born - Chapter 3
"And - you?" said Deianira, hefting Kryptes, then putting him over her shoulder to burp him.
He walked up to the labyrinthian thing into which Nessus had teleported the infant, waving Alcides to follow him.
"I'll tell him you said so," said Deianira, "when I've got him by the long hairs."
http://members.iglou.com/scarfman/aocb3.htm   (1776 words)

  
 Deianira of Rivenstar
This lovely lady, also called Jessie, participated locally just long enough to make friends with everyone in the Barony -- then she graduated high school in 2003 and immediately dove into a grueling program at Indiana University, where she is now no doubt making friends with everyone in the Shire of Mynydd Seren.
Alas, Deianira, you were with us for too short a time...
Deianira's intent was to portray natural figures from the area...
http://www.the-sanctum.com/Scriptorium/Deianira.html   (174 words)

  
 Niko's NaNoBlog: Friday, November 12, 2004
At that, Deianira looked sharply at Chiron, and Nessus regarded Ixion with a raised eyebrow.
Deianira wasn't thrilled about the idea of having an adopted human son, but she said she'd leave the decision up to you.
"It is you, Deianira, who is not listening," said Chiron.
http://nanoniko.blogspot.com/2004_11_12_nanoniko_archive.html   (1442 words)

  
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Nox media solem uidit et noctem dies: nihilque leges ad meos cantus tenent: flectemus illum, carmina inuenient iter.
(Deianira) Moriar Herculis nempe inclyti coniux nec ullus nocte discussa dies uiduam notabit nec meos pellex toros 335 captiua capiet: ante ab occasu dies nascetur, Indos ante glacialis polus Scythasue tepida Phoebus inficiet rota, quam me relictam Thessalae adspiciant nurus.
(Deianira) Quam prope a leto tamen 765 ede, ede quaeso iaceat Alcides meus.
http://pot-pourri.fltr.ucl.ac.be/files/AClassFTP/TEXTES/SENECA/sen_hercul_oeta.txt   (9581 words)

  
 Deianira, Hercules' second wife
A centaur, Nessos, had been appointed ferryman there.
Once, when Deianira and Hercules were traveling, they came to the Evenus River.
Just before he died, Nessos set up his revenge by telling Deianira that the blood spilling from his wound could be used as a love potion, if need be.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/deianira.html   (291 words)

  
 Centaur: Half Man Horse Myth, Centaurs, Mythilogical Creature, Centaur :Mythical Realm
Hercules swam across and heard Deianira yelling for him.
When Hercules was taking his wife to his home in Tiryns, they came to a swollen river.
Years later, when Hercules had completed his labors and was still far from home, Deianira heard that his heart had been captured by another woman.
http://www.mythicalrealm.com/creatures/centaurs.html   (640 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Deianira
Hercules later married Deianira, whom he won from the river god Achelous.
Deianira, in Greek mythology, wife of Hercules, who won her in combat, and mother of his sons, considered ancestors of the Dorian Greeks.
When the centaur Nessus attacked Deianira, Hercules wounded him with an...
http://ca.encarta.msn.com/Deianira.html   (54 words)

  
 Hercules & Deianira
Hercules told her about his descent to the underworld and his promise to her brother, and he asked her to married him.
After wandering for a long time, he remembered his promise to Meleagrus, to married his sister Deianira daughter of Oeneus and Althaea, or of Dionysus and Althaea, or of Dexamenus, son of Oeceus.
Deianira believed him and by the time Hercules came close to her the love-charm was ready and she never said anything to Hercules about it.
http://www.steliart.com/hercules__deianira.htm   (540 words)

  
 Deianira Sources
Oeneus married Althaea, daughter of Thestius, their children were Toxeus, Thyreus, and Clymenus, and daughters Gorge and Deianira, whose father may have been Dionysus; Althea had a son Meleager by Oeneus or Ares.
http://www.csulb.edu/~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i524Sources.htm   (59 words)

  
 UCIP Database - Record of Commander Deianira Korint
Deianira Korint was born and raised on Betazed.
Having had four people to raise her, she is very fond of the personal freedom she has now that she is grown up.
Deianira studied both Psychology and Communication Sciences at the University of Betazed before she went to Star Fleet Academy.
http://database.ucip.org/bio/view_individual.cgi?ID=3083   (554 words)

  
 Trachiniae Guide
Heracles shot him with an arrow, and the dying Nessus offered Deianira a shirt soa ked with his blood, telling her that its magic could keep Heracles faithful to her.
Aristotle writes in the Poetics that the life of Heracles was too varied and many-sided for a unified tragedy to be written about him, but tragedians nonetheless tried.
Background: when Heracles was trying to get his wife Deianira across a river, the Centaur Nessus offered to carry her, but when on the other side he then tried to rape her.
http://www.temple.edu/classics/trachiniae.html   (397 words)

  
 Paul Gadzikowski - King Arthur of Time and Space - One Child Born - Chapter 1
Deianira entered the living room as he was hanging up his cloak, wrapped her arms around him, and kissed him until she had to come up for air.
There was Deianira's trip 'sideways' in time to a Greece where she didn't exist; their honeymoon tour through history as their own previous reincarnations, battling those of Hercules's centaur nemesis Nessus; and others.
"Alcides!" Deianira was giving him the oddest mixed involuntary body language.
http://members.iglou.com/scarfman/aocb1.htm   (1979 words)

  
 Further Resources: Deianira
Look at a quote from Sophocles, in which Deianira explains how she obtained the potion from the centaur, Nessos.
Find out more about the river-god, Acheloos, from his entry in the Perseus Encyclopedia.
Read about the nature of the Greek tragic plays, or about the Greek tragic playwright, Sophocles, who wrote about Hercules and Deianira in Trachiniae (The Women of Trachis).
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/deianira2.html   (130 words)

  
 Overwhelming Grief and the Power of Landscape in Evelyn De Morgan's "Deianira"
Since Night and Deianira were painted around the same time without one definitively completed before the other, it is possible that some influence might not only have spread from teacher to pupil, but in the other direction as well.
Whereas the natural scene behind her appears serene, with the trees just slightly tilting in the breeze, Deianira's clothes wrap tightly around her body as though blown strongly against her, with some of her dress billowing dramatically over her head.
The paintings differ, however, in that Stanhope's figure actively pulls her drapery over her unlike Deianira, who seems passive in relation to the forceful, windblown cloth.
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/demorgan/wc/newman11.html   (649 words)

  
 Deianira Abducted by the Centaur Nessus, After
The dying Nessus told Deianira to keep a portion of his blood to use as a love potion on Hercules if she felt that she was losing him to another woman.
Description: After the original in the Louvre Hercules went to the town of Thebes and married Deianira.
A couple of a months later, Deianira thought that another woman was coming between her and her husband, so Deianira washed one of Hercules' shirts in Nessus' blood and gave it to him to wear.
http://www.antiqnet.com/detail,deianira-abducted-centaur,940420.html   (172 words)

  
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Messenger: Herakles could not make her (Iole’s) father give his daughter to him for his concubine…and killed the king her father.
Herakles didn’t know that Deianira accidentally killed him, and he rushed to the conclusion that she intended to murder him.
Heracles had saved Deianira from Nessus years before, shooting him with an arrow dipped in the hydra’s blood.
http://people.uncw.edu/deagona/herakles/husband.htm   (654 words)

  
 Summary of Heracles
In Hades, Meleager ask Heracles to marry his sister, Deianira
Heracles falls in love with Iole of Oechalia; cheated by her father Eurytus in contest; kills his son Iphitus; servitude under Omphale, queen of the Lydians
Killed first wife, Megara, and their children; at Delphi named Alcides and instructed to perform labors for Eurystheus
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jjc/Clas430/Heracles.html   (160 words)

  
 CLASSICS DEIANIRA PAGE
She was tricked by the Centaur Nessos into giving him a poison which she thought was a love potion.
For further information (depictions, literary sources) see the Perseus Project Deianira Page.
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/classics/mythology/deianira.html   (39 words)

  
 Lady Deianira of Destiny-RPG
"Lady Deianira, it is time to come home." And, with His words, and breath of wind, the flower and the elements merged into a bright light, then exploded.
He rose from His knee and walked towards the flower and three elements and, with a whisper, blew His breath onto them.
The pieces scattered for miles then raced back towards each other into the form of a beautiful young lady.
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/of-destiny/gods/deianira.html   (568 words)

  
 Women of Trachis: Deianira's Monologue
DEIANIRA: Friends, while our guest is parleying in the house
With the girl-captives, on the point to go,
http://www.monologuearchive.com/s/sophocles_019.html   (397 words)

  
 The Royal Cartographic Society of Inkfishinch
Politics: Deianira's government was recently overthrown in a coup led by President Victor Herald, who has installed himself as dictator.
Geography: The majority of Deianira can be regarded as relatively arid and akin to the Great Plains of the United States due to the Pholus Ridge.
In addition, many reporters have been arrested for treason.
http://www.resnet.trinity.edu/lmcdavid/rcsi/cguide/cgdeiani.htm   (373 words)

  
 MetroPosts - Lyrics and music discussion forum - View Profile: Deianira
Deianira is not a member of any public groups
MetroPosts - Lyrics and music discussion forum - View Profile: Deianira
http://www.metroposts.com/member.php?u=59025   (38 words)

  
 Deianira Ganga
In addition to disseminating my research findings to a variety of academic and non-academic audiences at national and international conferences and through research papers, I am a member of the editorial board of the Journal Migration Letters (http://www.migrationletters.com).
My main research interests involve various topics: Migration, Ethnicity, Intergenerational Transmission, Transnationalism and Hyphenated identities.
> Learning and Teaching > Get in Touch > Deianira Ganga
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/life/study/ltdu/getintouch/deianiraganga   (171 words)

  
 Deianira
For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.
[ Deherainia ] [ Deianira ] [ Deidamia ]
http://www.crescentbloom.com/Plants/Genus/D/e/Deianira.htm   (59 words)

  
 ObesityHelp.com - Profile for Deianira Morales
Surgeon: Alejandro Aguirre M.D. Click here for Deianira's surgery support page
http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/members/profile.php?N=M1082755679   (44 words)

  
 Giovanni Bologna / Nessus and Deianira / 1529-1608
This image is one of over 118,000 from The Art Museum Image Consortium Library (The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from 39 museums around the world.
Giovanni Bologna / Nessus and Deianira / 1529-1608
http://www.davidrumsey.com/amico/amico146371-119028.html   (256 words)

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