Nessus

Role: ferryman · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 18

In Book 3, Chapter 18, Nessus is named among those slain by Hercules by the river Evenus. In Book 10, Chapter 38, he is described as the ferryman at the river Evenus: wounded by Hercules, he fled, later died, and rotted unburied.

Relationship record

Life events

• Nessus died after fleeing wounded from Hercules and rotted unburied.(Book 10 · Chapter 38)
  • With: Hercules
  • “Nessus, the ferryman at the river Evenus, did not immediately die when wounded by Hercules, but fled to this land, and dying here rotted, as he was unburied, and tainted the air.”

Book 3 · Chapter 18

• enemies with Hercules “and Hercules slaying Diomede, King of Thrace, and Nessus by the river Evenus”
• with Hercules (interaction) “Hercules slaying Diomede, King of Thrace, and Nessus by the river Evenus”

Book 10 · Chapter 38

• with Hercules (Hercules wounded Nessus.) “Nessus, the ferryman at the river Evenus, did not immediately die when wounded by Hercules”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.