Lichas
Sign in to savethumb|Hercules and Lichas (Pavel Sorokin, 1849). In Greek mythology, Lichas ( ; ) was Heracles' servant, who brought the poisoned shirt from Deianira to Hercules because of Deianira's jealousy of Iole, which killed him.
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thumb|Hercules and Lichas (Pavel Sorokin, 1849). In Greek mythology, Lichas ( ; ) was Heracles' servant, who brought the poisoned shirt from Deianira to Hercules because of Deianira's jealousy of Iole, which killed him.
== Mythology == Lichas brought to his master the deadly garment, and as a punishment, was thrown by him into the sea, where the Lichadian islands, between Euboea and the coast of Locris, were believed to have derived their name from him. The story is recounted in Sophocles' Women of Trachis and Ovid's Metamorphoses.