Iole

Also known as: the rival · Family: mortal · Role: beloved of Hercules · First appears: Fable 78

Fable 78

• courtship with Hercules “that the son of Amphitryon is seized with a passion for Iole.”
• rivals with Deïanira “that the son of Amphitryon is seized with a passion for Iole. As she loves him, she believes it; and being alarmed with the report of this new amour, at first she indulges in tears”
• admirer: Hercules “runs before to thy ears, Deïanira, {to the effect} that the son of Amphitryon is seized with a passion for Iole.”

Fable 79

• with Alcmena (Iole is Alcmena's confidante.) “has Iole, to whom to disclose the complaints of her old age, to whom to relate the achievements of her son attested by {all} the world, or to whom {to tell} her own misfortunes.”
• with Hyllus (They are presented as sexual partners.) “At the command of Hercules, Hyllus had received her both into his bed and his affections, and had filled her womb with a noble offspring.”

Fable 80

• siblings with Dryope “What if I were to relate to thee the wondrous fate of my own sister?”
• married with Hyllus “Iole was the wife of Hyllus, the son of Deïanira, by Hercules.”
• parent: Eurytus “while Iole was relating the wretched fate of her sister, and while Alcmena was drying away the tears of the daughter of Eurytus”
• with Alcmena (Iole is telling the story to Alcmena.) “While Iole is relating these circumstances to Alcmena”

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