Lichas

Family: mortal · Role: attendant of Hercules · First appears: Fable 78

Life events

Deïanira sends Nessus’s fatal garment to Hercules through Lichas.(Fable78)
- With: Deïanira Hercules
- “Before them all, she prefers to send the garment dyed in the blood of Nessus, to restore strength to his declining love. Not knowing herself what she is giving, she delivers {the cause of} her own sorrows to the unsuspecting Lichas,[17] and bids him, in gentle words, to deliver this most fatal gift to her husband.”
Hercules hurls Lichas into the sea, where he transforms into a rock.(Fable78 · 📍 Eubœan sea)
- With: Hercules
- “As he is speaking, and endeavouring to clasp his knees with his hands, Alcides seizes hold of him, and whirling him round three or four times, he hurls him into the Eubœan waves, with greater force than {if sent} from an engine of war. As he soars aloft in the aerial breeze he grows hard; and as they say that showers freeze with the cold winds, {and} that thence snow is formed, and that from the snow, revolving {in its descent}, the soft body is compressed, and is {then} made round in many a hailstone,[24] so have former ages declared, that, hurled through the air by the strong arms {of Hercules}, and bereft of blood through fear, and having no moisture left in him, he was transformed into hard stone.”

employer: Hercules “This was the attendant of Hercules, whom he sent to Deïanira for the garment which he used to wear while performing sacrifice.”

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