Ovid's metamorphosis

Whats this story about

Hercules defeating a river God and winning Deianira’s hand in marriage

hercules’ story of becoming a God

who is Achelous

a river God

who wanted to marry Deianira

Hercules and Achelous

who is Oeneus

Deianira’s father

what did they offer to Oeneus

Hercules said his father-in-law would be Zeus and told her about his labours

Achelous said that only he was an actual God and a native, also Hera didn’t hate him

why did they start fighting

Achelous insulted Hercules’ parents

what impression of Hercules do we get from this

he is angry and violent, a short temper and strong

Hercules was beating Achelous so what did Achelous do

turned into a snake

what did hercules do when he turned into a snake

strangled him

what did Achelous do it return from being strangled

turned into a bull

what did Hercules do when Achelous turned into a bull

broke his horn (cornucopia)

when hercules and deianira were married who helped her cross the river

Nessus, a centaur

what did Nessus do when he had Deianira

tried to kidnap her

What did Hercules do in response

shot him with a poison arrow (Lernean hydra poison)

what does Nessus give to Deianira while he died and why

his bloody shirt and told her it revived dying love

Many years later what did the goddess rumor say

that hercules was in love with lole

what did she decide to do

give hercules the shirt

who delivered the shirt to hercules

lichas

what happened when hercules put the shirt on

the venom started to destroy hercules and put him in incredible pain

who does hercules call out to

Hera

What does Hercules do with Lichas?

Hurls him through the air and he becomes hard flint and turns into an island 

does zeus help hercules through his pain

no

what does zeus decide should happen to hercules

he should be turned into a God

what is hercules compared to when going from mortal to immortal

a snake shedding its skin