Topic summary
Poisoned arrow
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Arrow poison.
History
Poisoned arrows have featured in mythology, notably the Greek story of Heracles slaying the centaurNessus using arrows poisoned with the blood of the Lernaean Hydra. The Greek hero Odysseus poisons his arrows with hellebore in Homer's Odyssey. Poisoned arrows also figure in Homer's epic about the Trojan War, the Iliad, in which both Achaeans and Trojans used toxic arrows and spears.