Deianira Daughter of Althaea and King
Oeneus of Calydon. Sister of Meleager. Wife
of the greatest of Greek heroes, Heracles. The
fullest remedy of Deianira and Heracles’ story
is Sophocles’ Trachiniae. Other classical sourc-
es encompass Apollodorus’s Library (1.8.1, 2.7.5),
Diodorus Siculus’s Library of History (4.34.1,
four.38.1), Hyginus’s Fabulae (33, 34, 36), Ovid’s
Metamorphoses (nine.Five–133), and Pausanias’s
Description of Greece (6.19.12). During one in every of his
Twelve Labors, Heracles descended to Hades,
where he met the ghost of Meleager. Heracles
promised Meleager that upon his go back from
the underworld that he would locate and marry
Meleager’s sister Deianira. First, Heracles suc-
cessfully defeated the river god Achelous in a
wrestling in
