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	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As Deianeira moved into the acting area, her first words were simultaneously echoed off-stage by the voice of Heracles, an effect which was unobtrusive enough to provide grandeur and solemnity without being overly dissonant.
		Deianeira, as played by Sheri Hastings, was a controlled, single-minded woman, loyal to her husband and anxious about his absence.
		Deianeira's initial sympathy for the figure of the silent Iole, played by Lilith Clark, was well reflected, which made her later disgust and anger all the more powerful.
	didaskalia.open.ac.uk /issues/vol1no5/trach.html (1261 words)

	The Shirt of Nessus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, before the centaur died he told Deianeira to keep his blood, for any who wore a garment with his blood rubbed in it would love her forever.
		Eventually, as the story evolved, Deianeira gave Hercules a shirt with Nessus's blood rubbed in it, but the garment proved to be poisonous, not an inducement to love.
		Major-General Henning von Tresckow, one of the primary conspirators in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, famously referenced the Shirt of Nessus in a quote following the realization that the assassination plot had failed and that he and others involved in the conspiracy would lose their lives as a result.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Shirt_of_Nessus (430 words)

	When the Earth Moved
		Ania and Deianeira, who was expecting their third child at the same time, had delighted in spending days on end together.
		Deianeira had delivered a healthy little girl, but their celebration had been cut short as the healer had made a very loudly protesting Iolaus leave the room where his wife lay.
		Deianeira was sweeping up some of the broken pottery and Hercules had already taken care of the broken table.
	geminia_fic.tripod.com /earth.html (2770 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The fears of Deianeira, for all that she makes a great show of her experience, are not much different from those of the new bride; her fortune depends for good or ill entirely on her man, over whom she has no control.
		Deianeira's memorable sympathy for the captive women is part of this; note how she dwells on their loss of social standing, referring to their fathers at 300 ff., 311, 316, 377.
		What we are interested in is Deianeira and Iole, not the herald." The stress in "you know yourself how well I received her" is quite natural; she means that, as Lichas is fully aware of the situation, he can report it to Herakles with conviction.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-v2n06-fowler-trachiniae.txt (4031 words)

	Whoosh! Episode Guide: HERCULES AND THE LOST KINGDOM
		Deianeira sees this as a bad omen and, after looking at her people sleeping in the woods, decides that she does not want any of them to be killed in a battle.
		Deianeira asks the priest if she goes through with the sacrifice of herself, her people would be set free and return to their city.
		Deianeira tells Hercules that she came to the tower to be sacrificed because she thought it was her destiny and that it was the only way she could save her people.
	www.whoosh.org /epguide/movies/mhlk.html (3585 words)

	Perseus Vase: San Antonio 75.59.15P (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One day when Herakles was out with his wife Deianeira, they came to the River Evenos, in Aitolia, swollen with rain.
		But Nessos had his revenge, for with his dying words he persuaded Deianeira to save the blood from his wound and use it as a love potion, should Herakles ever wander in his affections.
		Deianeira wears a belted peplos and a short shawl-like mantle over it.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vaseindex?lookup=San+Antonio+75.59.15P (564 words)

	Apples from the Hesperides's garden, Heracles, Ancient Greece - mythology.
		He said to Deianeira that his blood was magic: he advised Deianeira to take some of his blood and keep it as a magic potion for the case if Heracles stopped loving her.
		Deianeira imbued clothes with the blood of the centaur and sent it t Heracles, willing by this to revive his love to her.
		Having learned what she has done, Deianeira sent her son back to the father to tell him that it was not her fault, that this crime happened because of her strong love to him.
	www.tours2greece.info /greece-travel/twelfth_feat.php (1818 words)

	Women of Trachis. Levine's Notes
		Deianeira, finding out that Heracles was in love with Iole, testifies to the absolute power of Eros: "Whoever stands up to Eros like a boxer is a fool; for he rules even the gods just as he pleases, and he rules me: how should he not rule another woman like me?" (441).
		Deianeira calls him "Zeus, god of trophies" (O ZEU TROPAIE), when she sees the pitiable condition of the captive women, and prays that such a lot would never be hers.
		Deianeira speaks of the prophecies (heimarmena 169) of Heracles' death as being confirmed by her husband's trip to Zeus' oracle at Dodona, through the ancient oak and the two doves there.
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/dlevine/Trachiniai.html (1686 words)

	Background and Images for the Women of Trachis
		The dying Nessus instructed the naive and gullible Deianeira to collect some of his blood and carefully preserve it in case she should ever need a love charm to keep Heracles attracted to her.
		Deianeira realized that this was the time to use the “love charm” provided by Nessus, so she rubbed the preserved blood of the centaur on a fine tunic and sent it to Heracles to wear at his sacrifice of thanksgiving to Zeus.
		The fact that Heracles and Deianeira never meet in the course of the play symbolizes the extreme separation of the feminine and masculine spheres, which is reinforced by the way each dies.
	www.cnr.edu /home/bmcmanus/trachiniaebg.html (1471 words)

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		DEIANEIRA It brings thee shame, she saith, that, when thy father hath been so long a stranger, thou hast not sought to learn where he is. HYLLUS Nay, I know,- if rumour can be trusted.
		DEIANEIRA Then let her be left in peace, and pass under our roof as she wishes; her present woes must not be crowned with fresh pains at my hands; she hath enough already.-Now let us all go in, that thou mayest start speedily on thy journey, while I make all things ready in the house.
		DEIANEIRA I know not; but feel a misgiving that I shall presently be found to have wrought a great mischief, the issue of a fair hope.
	classics.mit.edu /Sophocles/trachinae.pl.txt (9592 words)

	Diotima
		Deianeira, for all her sincerity and goodness, cannot, like Antigone, bravely act in accord with divine law when divine law is nowhere to be found.
		After the chorus sing "the power of Aphrodite's triumph" in terms of battle between Achelous and Heracles, Deianeira tells them of the "love-charm" she had taken from the fl clotted blood of Nessus, the shaggy beast whom Heracles had shot as he strove to violate her in the midst of the swirling Evenus river.
		The images reach a climax of terror when Deianeira, after sending the robe in "a hollow, sunless casket," with instructions not to expose it to the light, sees the tuft of wool which she had used to spread the blood crumble away to dust as a sunbeam strikes it.
	www.stoa.org /diotima/anthology/soph_int.shtml (4420 words)

	argos14.html
		The tragedy begins with Deianeira’s lament for the misfortunes which have troubled her ever since she came of age for marriage, beginning with her courtship by the river-god Acheloos and the terrible combat between Herakles and the river-god.
		Deianeira’s joy is lessened by her compassion for the captive women, especially one who refuses to speak despite Deianeira’s repeated questions.
		Deianeira goes into the house and commits suicide by stabbing herself on her marriage bed, while Hyllos weeps over her body upon learning of his mother’s true intention.
	www.sporadestours.com /argos14.html (917 words)

	Houses of Elis and Calydon
		Unaware that the blood was venomous, Deianeira used the so-called love potion on one of Heracles' shirts.
		Deianeira realising what she had done, she hanged herself before her husband came home.
		Althaea was the mother of two daughters: Deianeira, who would later marry Heracles, and Gorge, the wife of Andraimon.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/calydon.html (4334 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Troupe's Debut Is More Myth Than Hit
		Deianeira anxiously waits for her husband, Herakles (or, as the Romans called him, Hercules), to return from what she hopes, based on vague prophecies the two received long ago, will be his last labors.
		Call it the crowning irony in a tragedy in which the number of ironies is higher than the body count.
		Though her shadow hangs heavy over the last third of the play, Alprin creates no sense that Deianeira's ultimate comprehension of the prophecies has much to do with the rest of the play.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A19336-2004Jun30?language=printer (621 words)

	New Drama Troupe Overshoots With 'Women of Trachis' (washingtonpost.com)
		Deianeira, vividly portrayed here by Paula Alprin, dominates the first act as she waits for the return of her long-absent husband, wallowing in jealousy when she learns he has sent a mistress home ahead of him.
		Determined to entice her husband, Deianeira had sent him a robe coated with what she thought was a love charm but was really a poison.
		The play then makes a seismic readjustment and becomes a study of a demigod who may or may not be brought down to mortality, which either Sophocles or his translators have left unclear.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A64273-2004Jun23.html (720 words)

	Myth: new subjects to conquer
		On one occasion as [Hercules] was travelling with his wife [Deianeira], they came to a river, across which the Centaur Nessus carried travellers for a stated fee.
		Deianeira, thinking it a good opportunity to try her love-spell, steeped the garment in the blood of Nessus.
		We are to suppose she took care to wash out all traces of it, but the magic power remained, and as soon as the garment became warm on the body of Hercules the poison penetrated into all his limbs and caused him the most intense agony.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLTnoframes/ideas/myth.html (676 words)

	HERAKLES’ FURTHER ADVENTURES: KALYDON
		The king of Kalydon was Oineus, and Deianeira was the daughter of Althaia and Oineus (or Althaia and Dionysos).
		Deianeira, with her Amazonian qualities and wounded breast (like the Amazon’s missing right breast), is related to Hera, who rejected the infant Herakles from her breast, appeared as an Amazon in the ninth labor, was wounded in the right breast by Herakles at Pylos, and eventually will use Deianeira as her agent to kill Herakles.
		In a peculiar version Nessos never tried to rape Deianeira; knowing that he was no match for Herakles, he tried instead to talk Deianeira into persuading her husband to lead a more civilized life.
	www.greecetravel.com /greekmyths/argos13.htm (1016 words)

	The Other Side
		Making his way through a dark and smoky cavern he is immediately thrown off balance by a fleeting vision of his deceased wife Deianeira (Tawny Kitaen), and their three children.
		Deianeira runs to embrace her husband, and Hercules is swept up in a joyful family reunion.
		Hercules is surprised and confused when she shows up at Deianeira's home and is not under guard.
	www.netmoon.com /tvmovie/hercules/season2/side.htm (487 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Trachiniae by Sophocles
		Queen Deianeira, I shall be the first of messengers to free thee from fear.
		DEIANEIRA enters from the house alone, carrying in her arms a casket containing a robe.
		Deianeira hath departed on the last of all her journeys, departed without stirring foot.
	classics.mit.edu /Sophocles/trachinae.html (9215 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.79
		He also presumes that we think of a person's character as an interior cause of action, and explains that in Greek plays, as in Greek society, character is understood as the image a person's actions make in the eyes of a social group.
		In reading the analyses I had the impression of a trial, one in which a jury of readers, drawing upon testimony from what is said in the play about the characters/defendants, deliberates whether they merit praise or disapproval according to laws of social value in force among 5th century Athenians.
		Thus while Deianeira's traits of powerlessness, sympathy to others, and inclination to universalize her situation may suggest an ideal of innocent feminine domesticity, Levett also points out that in sending the robe to Heracles she acts in her self-interest, because the presence of Iole in Deianeira's home threatens her reputation.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-09-79.html (1172 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Just as Deianeira seems filled with self-pity and blind anguish, Heracles is filled with a bestial need for vengeance and blood.
		We sympathize with Deianeira because she is a victim in this play of Heracles' ego and sexual lust.
		Deianeira's status as tragic hero fades after her departure.
	www.brightok.net /~kellimcb/trachis.htm (1296 words)

	Responsibilities of Strength Challenge by Ziggy
		Earlier in the day, having finished his chores, the son of Zeus had lamented to Deianeira how he hadn't seen Iolaus in a long while and wondered how he was faring with Ania and their son.
		Deianeira: his calm port in the wildly blowing sea that was Iolaus' current mood.
		Between chores, fussing over Deianeira now close to term with the baby and the couple instances that required the kind of help only Hercules could provide, the couple's only news of Iolaus had been whatever gossip was making the rounds in the marketplace.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Location/6802/streng5.htm (4875 words)

	Milanion and Atalanta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Heracles competed for Deianeira by wrestling with her other suitor, the river god Achelous.
		Deianeira rode with the would be husband, but no one ever beat the old man and his battlements displayed the heads of the losers.
		When Penelope promised to marry whichever one of the hundred suitors who crowded her hall could bend and string the bow of her missing husband Odysseus, it was she she who, unlike Deianeira, Hippodameia, and Iole, set the terms.
	www.travel-italy.com /ct/milanion.html (535 words)

	The Curse of Hera
		It was then that Deianeira noticed the two men had also followed her mother and were standing a few feet back, trying not to look too much out of place.
		Deianeira nodded and followed her mother out of the village and into the woods.
		Deianeira spent the next two years traveling with her mother and Gabrielle, but she also spent them taking private lessons from the Gods.
	home.wi.rr.com /dizzydomain/curse.html (4363 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was the son of Zeus and Alkmene, and the husband of Deianeira.
		The dying centaur told Deianeira to preserve some of the blood from his wound, as it had the power of making whomever she wished fall in love with her.
		Deianeira devised a robe with some of the centaur's blood smeared on it and sent it to Herakles, thinking to win back his love.
	icecubetopper.com /Authors/Greek_Roman_Gods/HERAKLES.TXT (315 words)

	The Grotto
		Sam followed Deianeira out of the hut, taking the opportunity to look for the rest of the team, who were nowhere in sight.
		She led Sam to a hut standing a little way from the centre of the village, one which was conspicuous in having Amazons standing guard over the doorway.
		Deianeira glanced round slyly then, as if checking to see if they could be overheard.
	www.btinternet.com /~graculus/ocl.html (6181 words)

	MASC: MODERN ACTORS STAGING CLASSICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Deianeira's prologue was delivered standing motionless, in front of the palace gate, in the light from the door.
		The cent ral dais on which the chorus sit here is elsewhere adapted to be a royal platform on which Deianeira welcomes Lichas, and the deathbed of Heracles.
		The raw cruelty of Heracles conflicts with the sensitive depth of Deianeira, and Heracles' death, with him prostrate on the dais at the play's end, represents no hope for him, and a release for those still living.
	www.cnrs.ubc.ca /masc/trachiniae.html (441 words)

	One Common Light
		She looked carefully at Deianeira with this information in mind - she didn't have a sign on her forehead which indicated the Goa'uld she served, unlike all of the Jaffa they had met before.
		Deianeira looked at her, as if the thought of telling the rest of the team this, giving them that kind of reassurance, had never occurred.
		"However..." Deianeira continued, surprising Sam when she continued so unexpectedly, "...if you are not one of us, I believe that it is only by the accident of your birth that it is so.
	www.stargatefan.com /fictionkp/onecommon.html (6152 words)

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