A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Ἰαρδάνης), a king of Lydia, and father of Omphale, who is hence called nympha Iardanis. (Apollod. 2.6.3; Ov. Ep. 9.103.) Herodotus (1.7) calls the Heracleidae in Lydia descendants of Heracles and a female slave of lardanus.

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