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'My suitor was the river Achelóüs,
who took three forms to ask me of my father:
a rambling bull once, then a writhing snake
of gleaming colors, then again a man
with ox-like face: and from his beard's dark shadows
stream upon stream of water tumbled down.
Such was my suitor.' (Sophocles, Trachiniae)
Herakles (Hercules) against Acheloos fighting for Deianeira, Attic Red Figure Stamnos , probably Oltos Painter, 5th century BC, British Museum, Image , Closer Look , Info . Acheloos, a river god, son of Oceanus and Thetys (one of their 3000 children).. Herakles wins and marries Dianeira
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