![]() ![]() However, neither the blood nor the robe could be exposed to sunlight or fire. Heraclesâs wife, Deianeira, blinded by love, sent Heracles a festive robe she had woven she had rubbed the inside with Nemosâs blood, which the dying Nemos had told her would fire her husbandâs passion. Heracles had been brought down accidentally by the poisonous blood of the dead centaur, Nemos. Finally, at his fatherâs command, Philoktetes fulfilled Heraclesâs request, and the latter gave him his legendary bow and arrows in gratitude. But when he was carried to the pyre, none of those there wanted to light the fire, however much he pleaded with them. ![]() Heracles, racked by terrible pains, had a funeral pyre of oak and olive branches put up for himself on Mount Oita. Mikhail Bakhtin According to Greek tradition, Philoktetes, son of King Poias, inherited from Heracles the bow and poisonous arrows to which that future god owed numerous victories during his mortal existence. The victory over death is not at all its abstract elimination,it is both its dethronement, its revival and its transformation into joy: âhellâ has exploded and has flowed out into a horn of plenty. ![]() Halfway to the Grave Halfway to the Grave ![]()
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