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In Greek mythology, Nessus (Greek: Νέσσος) was a famous centaur who was killed by Heracles, and whose tainted blood in turn killed Heracles. He was the son of Ixion and Nephele, the Cloud. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2024x2657, 387 KB) See also: . File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Deianira Guido Reni Nessus (mythology) ...
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Autoportrait Abduction of Deianira, 1620-21 Guido Reni (November 4, 1575, Calvenzano di Vergato, near Bologna - August 18, 1642, Bologna) was a prominent Italian painter of high-Baroque style. ...
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Hercules and the Nemean Lion (detail), silver plate, 6th century BC (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris). ...
Portrait of Giovanni Bologna by Hendrick Goltzius Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, also known as Giovanni Da Bologna and Giovanni Bologna (1529 - 1608) was a sculptor who best known for his marble statuary and works in bronze. ...
The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ...
In Greek mythology, the Centaurs (Greek: ΚÎνταυÏοι) are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. ...
Hercules, a Roman bronze (Louvre Museum) For other uses, see Heracles (disambiguation). ...
This article is about the Greek myth. ...
In Greek mythology, Nephele (from Greek: nephos, cloud) was the goddess of Clouds who figured prominently in the story of Phrixus and Helle. ...
He fought in the battle with the Lapiths. He became a ferryman on the river Euenos. Lapith and a Centaur: a metope from the Parthenon In Greek mythology, the Lapiths were a legendary race, whose home was in Thessaly on the mountain Pelion. ...
The Evinos, Evenus, or Euenos (Greek ΕÏηνος) is a river in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. ...
Nessus is known for his role in the story of the Tunic of Nessus. After carrying Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, across the river, he attempted to rape her eye socket. Heracles saw this from across a river and shot a Hydra-poisoned arrow into Nessus's breast. As a final act of malice, Nessus told Deianira, as he lay dying, that his blood mixed with his excrement would ensure that Heracles would be true to her forever. The Shirt of Nessus, Tunic of Nessus, Nessus-robe, or Nessus shirt is the shirt (chiton) daubed with the tainted blood of the centaur Nessus that Deianeira, Hercules wife, naïvely gave Hercules, burning him, and driving him to throw himself onto a funeral pyre. ...
Like many mortal women in Greek mythology, Deianira (also Deianeira) occupied a perilous threshold position between the daylit world of Olympian gods and heroes and the dark chthonic primordial world of primitive earth magic. ...
Hercules, a Roman bronze (Louvre Museum) For other uses, see Heracles (disambiguation). ...
The 16th-century German illustrator has been influenced by the Beast of Revelation in his depiction of the Hydra. ...
Deianira foolishly believed him. Later, when her trust began to wane, she spread the centaur's blood on a shirt and gave it to her husband. Heracles went to a gathering of heroes, where his passion got the better of him. Meanwhile, Deianeira accidentally spilled a portion of the centaur's blood onto the floor. To her horror, it began to fume by the light of the rising sun. Like many mortal women in Greek mythology, Deianira (also Deianeira) occupied a perilous threshold position between the daylit world of Olympian gods and heroes and the dark chthonic primordial world of primitive earth magic. ...
She instantly recognized it as poison and sent her messenger to warn Heracles but it was too late. Heracles lay dying slowly and painfully as the shirt burned his skin—either in actual flames or by the heat of poison. He died a noble death on a funeral pyre of oak branches, and was taken to heaven by Hera and welcomed amongst the gods for his heroic exploits.
A similar theme appears in certain versions of the story of Medea. This article is about the Greek mythological figure. ...
External links - Nessus at the Theoi Project
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