shirt of Nessus
tunic of Nessus
Nessus-robe
Nessus' shirt

"Whoever joined the resistance movement put on the shirt of Nessus.

We came to the Shirt of Nessus.

The Shirt of Nessus (1955)

Hercules Poisoned by the Shirt of Nessus, a 15th-century illumination at the Getty Museum.

After five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and after the lost election of 1979, he says he found himself wearing this Shirt of Nessus.

The shirt of Nessus is vpon me, teach me Alcides, thou mine Ancestor, thy rage.

There should be no women, no shirt of Nessus. . . . The Labours and the Labours only.

The Shirt of Nessus (1952) is also the title of the master's thesis of noted American postmodern novelist John Barth.

As soon as he gets his shirt he starts screaming as if his shirt just became the Shirt of Nessus, the poisoned shirt which killed Herakles.

"It burned me like the shirt of Nessus, but I wore it to rags, to get my money out of it, garment of the guilty luxury that it was."

Later, when Deianira suspected that Heracles was fond of Iole, she soaked a shirt of his in the mixture, creating the poisoned shirt of Nessus.

Folklorist Stith Thompson noted the classical prototype in these stories, "Shirt of Nessus", and assigned Motif D1402.5, "Magic shirt burns wearer up".

The Shirt of Nessus is the shirt smeared with the poisoned blood of the centaur Nessus, which was given to Hercules by Hercules' wife, Deianira.

The fire is described in a manner similar to Julian of Norwich's writing about God's love and discussed in relationship to the shirt of Nessus, a shirt that burns its wearer.

Written for the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University, which Barth himself later ran, 'The Shirt of Nessus' is not a dissertation, but rather a short novel or novella.

The Shirt of Nessus is briefly referenced in both of Barth's nonfiction collections, The Friday Book and Further Fridays, but little is known of its actual content.

The Shirt of Nessus, Tunic of Nessus, Nessus-robe, or Nessus' shirt in Greek mythology was the poisoned shirt that killed Heracles.

She looked on it as a deceitful dream, and tried to throw off the consciousness of it; but like the shirt of Nessus, it clung to her very flesh, and ate with sharp agony into her vital principle.

I established the that Nancy had been in the habit of selling her employer's cast-offgarments to the servants, with or without her master's permission; so McDermott could have come by his Shirt of Nessus honestly enough.

In Act 4.12 of Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, Mark Antony is in a rage after losing the Battle of Actium and exclaims, "The shirt of Nessus is upon me."

At the moment the wild thing that had enslaved it was perhaps most like a bear sark, dangerous to the wearer only if she panicked, but the change might well be progressive, pointed ultimately towards some Saturnine equivalent of the shirt Of Nessus.

In James Branch Cabell's Jurgen, the title character dons the shirt of nessus and is transported by it on his travels, in the end of the story he is allowed to take it off, in contradiction to the usual conventions.

The shirt of Nessus is upon me; teach me, Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage; Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' th' moon, And with those hands that grasp'd the heaviest club Subdue my worthiest self.

In H. Rider Haggard's Montezuma's Daughter, when Otomie the princess is made to wear the garb of a low-class woman in order to escape imprisonment, the narrator states that "for her proud heart, that dress was the very shirt of Nessus."

In Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series of books a vague reference is made to the Shirt of Nessus as the brothers Travis and Connor Stoll give a t-shirt coated in Centaur blood to one of Artemis' Hunters.

The central story of Deianira, however, concerns the Tunic of Nessus.

Nessus is known for his role in the story of the Tunic of Nessus.

He later used one to kill the centaur Nessus; and Nessus's tainted blood was applied to the Tunic of Nessus, by which the centaur had his posthumous revenge.

The Shirt of Nessus, Tunic of Nessus, Nessus-robe, or Nessus' shirt in Greek mythology was the poisoned shirt that killed Heracles.

He once said that this nickname was "my tunic of Nessus, as I am neither Russian, nor Polish, nor Jewish, nor Ukrainian, but just an average Frenchman and wine-guy [sacavin]".