Iardanus (father of Omphale) explained

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]

References

• Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Diodorus Siculus, Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History. translated by C. H. Oldfather, twelve volumes, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Online version by Bill Thayer.
• Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: (Vol. 1), (Vol. 2).
• Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996. . Internet Archive.
• Hard, Robin (2004), The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, . Google Books.
• Herodotus, Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1920; . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Ovid, Heroides in Heroides. Amores, translated by Grant Showerman, revised by G. P. Goold, Loeb Classical Library No. 41, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1977. . Online version at Harvard University Press.
• Parada, Carlos, Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1993. .
• Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stafford, Emma, Herakles: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World, Routledge, 2012. .
• Strassler, Robert B., The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, translated by Andrea L. Purvis, New York, Pantheon Books. .

Notes and References

1. Hard, p. 274; Gantz, pp. 439 - 440; Grimal, s.v. Omphale; Smith, s.v. Iardanes; Parada, s.vv. Iardanus, Omphale; Palaephatus, On Unbelievable Tales 44 (Stafford, p. 10, "king of Lydia"); Diodorus Siculus, 4.31.5; Ovid, Heroides 9.103; Apollodorus, 2.6.3 (called Iardanes).
2. Smith, s.v. Iardanes (identifies the "Iardanes" of Apollodorus, the "nympha Iardanis" of Ovid, and the "Iardanus" of Herodotus); Strassler, p. 7 n. 1.7.4b ("The Greek is ambiguous here. Some scholars have called her the daughter of Iardanos"); Parada, s.vv. Iardanus' Slave, Omphale (identifies these two); Herodotus, 1.7.4.