Iardanus (father of Omphale)

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In Greek mythology, Iardanus or Iardanos (Ancient Greek: Ἰάρδανος), also called Iardanes (Ancient Greek: Ἰαρδάνης), was a king of Lydia, and the father of Omphale, the Lydian queen who for a time owned Heracles as her slave.^[1] This is perhaps the same Iardanus which Herodotus refers to when he says that the Heracleidae were descendants of Heracles and "a female slave of Iardanus" (Omphale?).^[2]