Nessus

Role: centaur · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.7

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Nessus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Nessus) · The Divine Comedy (as Nessus)

Apollodorus, Library 2.7

• with Deianira (Nessus attempted to violate Deianira.) “But he, in ferrying her across, attempted to violate her.”
• enemies with Heracles “Hercules heard her, and shot Nessus to the heart when he emerged from the river.”

Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

• parent: Tethys “the silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliacmon, and Heptaporus”
• parent: Ocean “the silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliacmon, and Heptaporus”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.