Shirt na Nessus

A cikin tatsuniyoyin Helenawa, ***'T-shirt na Nessus***', Tunic na Nessus، Nessus-robe, ko rigar Nessus (Girkanci na dā: ,  Chitńn zuwa Nûsou) ita ce rigar guba (chiton) wacce ta kashe Heracles. Ya taɓa zama sanannen bayani a cikin wallafe-wallafen. A cikin al'adun gargajiya, ana ɗaukarsa misali ne na "tufafi mai guba".

## Labaran Tarihi
Tsoron cewa Heracles ya ɗauki sabon masoyi a Iole, matarsa Deianeira ta ba shi tufafin, wanda aka shafa da jinin centaur Nessus. Nessus mai mutuwa ya yaudare ta ta ta yi imani cewa zai zama magani don tabbatar da amincin mijinta. A zahiri, yana dauke da guba na Lernaean Hydra wanda Heracles ya kashe kibiya da ya yi amfani da ita don kashe Nessus. Lokacin da Heracles ya sanya shi, guba ta Hydra ta fara dafa shi da rai, kuma don tserewa daga wannan ciwo mai ban mamaki ya gina wuta ta jana'izar kuma ya jefa kansa a kanta.

A alamance, yana wakiltar "maɓallin bala'i wanda babu tserewa daga gare shi; wani abu mai haɗari; duk abin da ke cutar da masu saukin kamuwa"  ko "ƙarfi ko ƙarfin kafara ko tasiri". 

## Bayanan tarihi

### Makircin Hitler
Manjo-Janar Henning von Tresckow, daya daga cikin manyan masu makirci a cikin makircin 20 ga Yuli don kashe Adolf Hitler, sanannen abin da ake kira "Robe of Nessus" bayan fahimtar cewa makircin kisan ya gaza kuma cewa shi da wasu da ke cikin makirci za su rasa rayukansu a sakamakon haka: "Babu ɗayanmu da zai iya gunaguni game da mutuwarmu. Kowane wanda ya shiga ƙungiyarmu ya sanya 'Robe of Lochus' da kansa, yana maimaita Heracles, ya kashe kansa ta hanyar grenade a Gabashin Gabas, jim kadan bayan gazawar.

## Bayani a cikin wallafe-wallafen

### John Barth
*Shirt of Nessus* (1952) shine babban kasida ta fitaccen marubucin marubucin Amurka John Barth . An rubuta don shirin Taro na Rubutun a Johns Hopkins, wanda Barth da kansa ya gudu daga baya, *The Shirt of Nessus* yana cikin wani gajeren labari ko novella . Yana da cikakken tsawon aikinsa na almara na farko, amma kaɗan ba a san abin da ke ciki ba. Barth ya bayyana kansa don jin kunya ta yawancin ayyukan da ba a buga ba kafin *The Floating Opera* . An yi ishara da *Rigar Nessus* a taƙaice a cikin duka tarin abubuwan almara na Barth, *[[The Friday Book|Littafin Juma'a]]* da *[[Further Fridays|Ƙarin Juma'a]]* . Sanannun kwafin da marubucin bai riƙe ba an ajiye su a cikin ɗakunan karatu na Johns Hopkins da Rubutun Taro, amma kwafin Rubutun Rubutun ya ɓace a tsakiyar 1960s, wasu kuma sun ɓace. Wasu membobin kungiyar Johns Hopkins da suka san Barth suna hasashen cewa watakila ya cire su. Lallai, lokacin da sashin tarawa na musamman ya sanar da Barth a cikin 2002 (lokacin da aka fara gano ƙarar ya ɓace), Barth ya amsa cewa "bai ji daɗin ɗakin karatu ba gaba ɗaya". Duk da haka, marubuci kuma masanin David Morell a cikin *John Barth: Gabatarwa*, ya lura cewa yana da kwafi.

### Robert Duncan
A cikin "Gabatarwa" ga Bending the Bow: "Pound ya nemi daidaituwa a cikin Cantos kuma ya zo a cikin Canto 116 don yin kuka 'kuma ba zan iya sanya shi ba.' Amma 'SPLENDOUR, IT ALL COHERES' na mawaki Herakles a cikin The Women of Trachis shine mabuɗin ko ganewa na ma'ana biyu wanda ke juyawa a cikin kulle na rigar Nessus".

A cikin Audit / Poetry IV.3, fitowar da ke nuna Robert Duncan, a cikin dogon jayayya da fassarar Robin Blaser na The *Chimeras* na Gérard de Nerval, wanda Duncan ya yi imani da gangan kuma ya watsar da ma'anar asiri da gnostic na asali, Duncan ya rubuta: "Koyarwar asiri na neo-Pythagorean naturalism ya zama kamar fassarar Nessus ga mai fassara, kuma a cikin kuka na Heracles da aka azabtar daga fassarar Pound na Trales of Women: Sophokes".