Editing Iole (section)

=== Versions of the tale ===
====Ovid's account====
Ovid's version of this story (''Heroides'' 9) has Heracles under the erotic control of Iole. She specifically has Heracles wear women's clothing and perform women's work. Heracles, all the while, is bragging about his heroic deeds. However, Deianira reminds him how he is dressed in feminine attire and Iole is wearing his clothing while carrying his club. Deianira ultimately urges silence from him. The same version shows the disgrace and shame of Heracles, who was once a strong warrior fighter, outwitted by Iole in being made to do effeminate acts. In this skillful crafty manner, she had avenged her father's death.<ref name="heroides9">{{cite web|url= https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses9.html|title= Metmorhoses book 9, trans. by Brooks More|access-date= 2008-09-11}}</ref>

====Sophocles' account====
According to [[Sophocles]]' play ''[[Women of Trachis]]'', Iole's mother was [[Antiope (Greek myth)|Antiope]] and her siblings were [[Iphitos]], [[Clytius]], [[Toxeus]], [[Deioneus]], Molion, and Didaeon.<ref>Trach. 266</ref> In the play, Iole is described as the daughter of King Eurytus, the royal princess of Oechalia.<ref>Trach. 382</ref> She is among the captive maidens of Oechalia when Heracles ransacks the city. She is to become the concubine of Heracles.<ref>Trach. 460-490</ref> Toward the end of the play, Heracles asks his son Hyllus to marry her when he dies, so she will be well taken care of. Hyllus agrees to do this for his father.<ref>Trach. 1249-1288</ref>

====Seneca's account====
According to [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]], Deianira is concerned that the captive Iole, who Heracles took as his concubine, will give brothers to her sons. She fears that Iole will become a daughter-in-law of Jove. He explains how Deianira thinks of the possible children of Heracles by Iole and her chance for vengeance on them. He shows the same jealousy Deianira has of Iole as does Apollodorus.<ref name="Seneca1">{{cite web|url= https://www.theoi.com/Text/SenecaHerculesOetaeus.html|title= Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1|access-date= 2008-09-11}}</ref>