29/33 After Hercules had been married to Deianira, and when they were on a journey, they came to the River Evenus. In doing so he insulted her, and Hercules shot him with an arrow. With the assistance of Apollo, Admetus performed this. Apollo, for the slaughter of the Cyclops, was condemned to serve a mortal, and accordingly he tended the flocks of Admetus for nine years. The River Amphrysos is marked as flowing into the Pagasaean Gulf at a short distance below Pherae. |