Deianeira and Heracles
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On this red figure pelike from Athens (ca. 440-430 B.C.) Deianeira gives
Herakles a cloak treated with what she believes is a love potion. The
treatment, made from the centaur Nessos' blood (and poisoned by Herakles'
arrow dipped in the blood of the Lernaean Hydra), instead bursts into
flames and kills Herakles. See 17th c. A.D. statue of the Death of Heracles. |