Deianira

Reading notes

• The Loves §3.6 Deianira

  Wife of Hercules, the prize contested between him and the river Achelous.

• The Heroides §9 Deianira

  Wife of Hercules, daughter of Oeneus of Calydon; the speaker, who unwittingly sends him the fatal poisoned robe.

• The Heroides §16 Deianira

  The bride Hercules won by combat; an exemplum of a wife as 'the work of toil.'

• Metamorphoses §8.217 daughter-in-law of noble Alcmena

  Deianira, daughter of Oeneus and wife of Hercules (son of Alcmena), also spared.

• Metamorphoses §9.238 Deianira

  Daughter of Oeneus of Calydon and wife of Hercules; her name opens the tale of the contest that won her and, later, of the robe that killed him.