Arnold Böcklin, Swiss
Fantastic Beasts and How to Repel Their Unwanted Sexual Advances, 1898
Oil on panel
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Wikimedia says (looks like where this is from) 1898 (just inside left hoof at bottom). Maybe the 7 is a typo.
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/// Tugging hard at her long purple cape,
Nessus tried Deianira to rape.
While she pulled at his beard
Both made faces so weird
That brave Heracles stared, mouth agape.
/// Tugging hard at her long purple cape,
Nessus tried Deianira to rape.
While she pulled at his beard
Both made faces so weird
That brave Heracles stared, mouth agape.
/// The opponent that Heracles faced
was half horse, human just to the waist.
So to keep the fight fair
he approached Nessus where
his sharp spear could be “centaurly” placed.
/// Deianira fought back as he groped,
and recalled his pursuit. He had loped
at such a fast pace
she soon lost the race.
He not only assaulted, he doped!
/// Had the centaur done no more than flirt,
he would not have been mortally hurt.
For revenge, as he died,
to the woman he lied:
“Save my blood, pour it over a shirt.”
/// “Should your husband, for you, lose his passion,
and then after young maidens go dashin’
have him wear it.” She did.
But the poisoned shirt rid
Herc of life, (the first victim of fashion).