Deianira
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a frenzied woman · the child of Oeneus' birth
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Wife of Hercules who unwittingly caused his death by giving him a poisoned tunic.
For Deianira did not wish to harm Hercules when she gave him the tunic dyed with the Centaur's blood, nor did he who with the sword opened the abscess of Jason of Pherae, which the physicians could not cure, wish to benefit him.
Tusculan Disputations
Wife of Hercules who unwittingly gave him the poisoned tunic that caused his fatal agony.
/ Neither did Juno's relentless terror, / Nor sullen Eurystheus, bring me so much ill / As one frenzied woman, the child of Oeneus' birth.