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This news was not so hard for Deianira as might be expected, because she believed she had a powerful love-charm which she had kept for years against just such an evil, a woman in her own house preferred before her.

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

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.

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

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