This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. ...καλεϊται. ϊστορεΐ Πίνόαρο;. Από Sophocles also may be rightly thought to have followed this report, by which Hercules was said to have sought Πω hand of Deianira after overcoming Cerberus, provided, at least, we do not consider that as his last labour. See my remarks in §. 1. Then we must also carefully observe that the Scholiast asserts that Hercules sought Deianira immediately on his return from Hades. For other writers, among whom are Apollodorus (II, 6, 1.) and Diodorus Siculus (IV, 31.), relate that Hercules after his expedition to theshades first sought lole, thenceforth slew Iphitus and served Omphale, and lastly, having set out to Aetolia, became a suitor to Deianira. When Sophocles departs from this report likewise, he must not again be accused of inventing a new story. So says Vogel p. 71: The Trachiniae was written with the view of showing that the love of Hercules towards Iole was destructive to him. From this very reason it was necessary that the poet should sometimes desert common report, and change several particulars. He therefore places the battle with Achelous, the wedding of Deianira, and the death of Nessus before the sought for alliance with Iole, the destruction of Iphitus, and the servitude to Omphale.a But it is more than sufficiently evident from that narrative of the Scholiast that Sophocles had other authors to follow (perhaps more ancient than those from whom Apollodorus and Diodorus Siculus had derived), when he asserts that Hercules sought the hand of Iole when he was married to Deianira, and that he did and sulfered what resulted from this wooing. But it is likely...
