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Shirt of Nessus

Objects · Myth & story

A named poisoned garment of Heracles’ death in Greek story. Not the Nemean hide, not Kāṣāya, and not a generic veil under a centaur name.

Hellenic religion

  • Shirt of Nessus appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses tells the poisoned shirt of Nessus that burns Heracles. A named garment in that poem, not Kāṣāya and not the Coat of Padarn.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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