ID: 901000827 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000827	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Heracles and Nessus (Greco-Roman narrative)

Note: Greek narrative: Having completed the Labors, Heracles undertook further enterprises, including warlike campaigns. He also successfully fought the river god Achelous for the hand of Deianeira. As he was taking her home, the Centaur Nessus tried to violate her, and Heracles shot him with one of his poisoned arrows. The Centaur, dying, told Deianeira to preserve the blood from his wound, for if Heracles wore a garment rubbed with it he would love none but her forever.

Names:

	Heracles and Nessus (Greco-Roman narrative) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
	Hercules and Nessus (Greco-Roman narrative) (English,U,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Greek iconography> (P)
		........<Greek narratives> (P)
		............Story of Heracles (Greco-Roman narratives) (I)
		................Heracles and Nessus (Greco-Roman narrative) (P)

Related Iconography:

	actor is .... Heracles
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Greek iconography, Greek characters, Heracles (Greco-Roman character)) [901000042]

Sources:

	Heracles and Nessus (Greco-Roman narrative)
	................National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)
	Hercules and Nessus (Greco-Roman narrative)
	................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/460242
	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) in "Hercules," accessed 13 July 2017