Nessus

Also known as: the Centaur Nessus / the two-shaped monster · Family: Centaurs · Role: centaur · First appears: Fable 78

Life events

Nessus attempts to abduct Deïanira, but Hercules shoots him and prevents the abduction.(Fable78 · 📍 Evenus)
- With: Deïanira Hercules
- “Nessus seizes the opportunity of Hercules being on the other side of the river, and attempts to carry her off; on which Hercules, perceiving his design, shoots him with an arrow, and thus prevents its execution.”
Hercules fatally wounds Nessus with a poisoned arrow.(Fable78 · 📍 Evenus)
- With: Hercules
- “But a passion for this same maiden proved fatal to thee, fierce Nessus,[11] pierced through the back with a swift arrow.”
Nessus gives Deïanira his bloodied garment as an instrument of revenge.(Fable78)
- With: Deïanira
- “Nessus takes it out, and says to himself, ‘And yet I shall not die unrevenged;’ and gives his garment, dyed in the warm blood, as a present to her whom he is carrying off, as though an incentive to love.”

enemies with Hercules “as Nessus is preparing to rob him of what he has entrusted to his care, he cries out, “Whither, thou ravisher, does thy vain confidence in thy feet hurry thee? to thee am I speaking, Nessus, thou two-shaped {monster}.”
with Deïanira (attempted abduction) “Nessus seizes the opportunity of Hercules being on the other side of the river, and attempts to carry her off”
parent: Ixion “He was one of the Centaurs which were begotten by Ixion the cloud sent by Jupiter, under the form of Juno.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.