Hercules and Dejanira published March 29,1931 in the American Weekly painted by Edmund Dulac. Hercules, the original strong man of mythology, married a Greek beauty named Dejanira. One day, while traveling, they came to a wide river where a Centaur, a creature half man and half horse, earned a living by ferrying people across on his back. His name was Nessus. Nessus tried to run away with Dejanira, and Hercules shot him with an arrow. The dying Centaur told Dejanira to take some of his blood and keep it, because it would preserve the love of her husband. After a while Hercules took captive ...

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Photo credit: © Albert Seligman / Alamy / Afripics
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