Deianira

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[ dee-yuh-nahy-ruh ]

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noun

Classical Mythology.

a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules, whom she killed unwittingly by giving him a shirt that had been dipped in the poisoned blood of Nessus.

Deianira

/ ˌdiːəˈnaɪərə; ˌdeɪə- /

noun

Greek myth a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules. She unintentionally killed Hercules by dipping his tunic in the poisonous blood of the Centaur Nessus, thinking it to be a love charm

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The cause of the contest, a young princess named Deianira, became his wife.

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Before he had quite completed the destruction of the city, he sent home—where Deianira, his devoted wife, was waiting for him to come back from Omphale in Lydia—a band of captive maidens, one of them especially beautiful, Iole, the King’s daughter.

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He took Deianira on his back and in midstream insulted her.

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Long before, Deianira had heard what her gift had done to him and had killed herself.

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The man who brought them to Deianira told her that Hercules was madly in love with this Princess.

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