Iole
The last beloved of Heracles, and a daughter of Eurytus of Oechalia. According to some writers, she was a half-sister of Dryope. (Anton. Lib. 32; Ov. Met. ix. 325, etc.)
From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and MythologyMetamorphoses by Ovid Book The Ninth
When Fame (who falshood cloaths in truth's disguise,
And swells her little bulk with growing lies)
Thy tender ear, o Deianira, mov'd,
That Hercules the fair Iole lov'd.
Her love believes the tale; the truth she fears
Of his new passion, and gives way to tears.
The flowing tears diffus'd her wretched grief,
Why seek I thus, from streaming eyes, relief?
From Ovid: The Art Of Love
And tangled hair suits many girls: often you’d think it’s been hanging loose since yesterday: it’s just combed.
Art imitates chance: when Hercules, in captured Oechalia, saw Iole like that, he said: ‘I love that girl.’
