Hercules had a great many other adventures, in after years as well as in between his labors.
Sometime after his labors and before he married Deianira, Hercules won Iole's hand through a contest in archery and yet he did not get the bride.

Deianira learned about Iole and Hercules and she felt very insecure about her husband. Believing that the blood of Nessus was in truth a love-charm, on a day that Hercules was about to offer a sacrifice to Zeus, Deianira gave Hercules the new tunic to wear.

- Wear this tunic, she said, since you are about to offer a sacrifice to the father of the gods, you need to wear something new.

When Hercules put it on and proceeded to offer sacrifice the tunic was warmed and the poison of the

Hydra (introduced into the blood of the Centaur by the arrow of Hercules) began to corrode his skin.

Deianira realizing the horrible mistake she had done, went into there house and killed her self with a sword.

Hercules seeing that he was dying run into the woods and with the help of the shepherd Poea Hercules constructed a pyre for himself and gave orders to kindle it. Nobody would do so but Poeas, Philoctetes' father, who set a light to it. Hercules gave him his bow.

But as soon as the pyre was light, a cloud came from the sky. Within this cloud was Zeus who lifted Hercules to the top of the mount Olumpus where the gods used to leave. Thereafter he obtained immortality, and being reconciled to Hera, he married her daughter Hebe in heaven.

Hercules had left earth, but his name was to be immortal till the end of time. Hercules had lots of children during his life on earth, and it's been said that most of them left Greece and moved to a far west island of the Mediterranean, Sardinia.

Hercules was the only hero to become a full-fledged god upon his demise, but even in his case there was his mortal aspect to be dealt with. He received special consideration because he had aided the Olympians in their epic battle against the Giants. These titanic sons of Earth had stormed the godly citadel in a hail of flaming oaks and rocks. And the deities of Olympus would never have prevailed without Hercules and his bow. By virtue of his spectacular achievements, even by heroic standards, Hercules was given a home on Mount Olympus and a goddess for a wife. But part of him had come not from his father Zeus but from his mortal mother Alcmene, and that part was sent to the Underworld. As a phantasm it eternally roams the Elysian Fields in the company of other heroes.