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LYDIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Son of Herakles by Omphale, from whom the family of Croesus was descended
Commentary:
According to Hdt. 1.7 the dynasty which preceded that of Croesus on the throne
of Sardes traced their descent from Alcaeus, the son of Herakles by a slave girl.
It is a curious coincidence that Croesus, like his predecessor or ancestor Herakles,
is said to have attempted to burn himself on a pyre when the Persians captured
Sardes. See Bacch. 3.24-62. The tradition is supported by the representation of
the scene on a red-figured vase, which may have been painted about forty years
after the capture of Sardes and the death or captivity of Croesus. See Baumeister,
Denkmaler des klassischen Altertums, ii.796, fig. 860. Compare Adonis, Attis,
Osiris, 3rd ed. i.174ff. The Herakles whom Greek tradition associated with Omphale
was probably an Oriental deity identical with the Sandan of Tarsus
Pythius (Puthios). A Lydian, the son of Atys. He was a man of enormous wealth, which he derived from his gold mines in the neighbourhood of Celaenae in Phrygia. When Xerxes arrived at Celaenae, Pythius banqueted him and his whole army. His five sons accompanied Xerxes. Pythius, alarmed by an eclipse of the sun which happened, came to Xerxes, and begged that the eldest might be left behind. This request so enraged the king that he had the young man immediately killed and cut in two, and the two portions of his body placed on either side of the road, and then ordered the army to march between them ( Herod.vii. 21).
Closter, the son of Arachne, invented the spindle for spinning wool; Arachne herself, linen cloth and nets;
Hyllus, (Hullos). A son of Ge, from whom the river Hyllus in Lydia was believed to have derived its name. His gigantic bones were shown in Lydia at a very late period. (Paus. i. 35. in fin.)
Lydus (Ludos), a son of Atys and Callithea, and brother of Tyrrhenus or Torybus, is said to have been the mythical ancestor of the Lydians. (Herod. i. 7, 94; Dionys. Hal. i. 27, &c.; Strab. v.)
LYDIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Atys, a son of Manes, king of the Maeonians, from whose son Lydus, his son and successor, the Maeonians were afterwards called Lydians. (Herod. i. 7, vii. 74.) Herodotus (i. 94; comp. Dionys. Hal. A. R. i. 26, 28; Tacit. Annal. iv. 55) mentions Tyrrhenus as another son of Atys; and in another passage (iv. 45), he speaks of Cotys as the son of Manes, instead of Atys.
Iardanes, a king of Lydia, and father of Omphale, who is hence called nympha Iardanis (Apollod. ii. 6.3; Ov. Heroid. ix. 103). Herodotus (i. 7) calls the Heracleidae in Lydia descendants of Heracles and a female slave of lardanus.
Husband of Omphale
Herakles stays with, mistress of Herakles, daughter of Iardanus (Iardanes), queen of Lydia, buys Herakles as a slave, his servitude with her, mother of Agelaus by Herakles.
Omphale. The daughter of the Lydian king Iardanus, and wife of Tmolus, on whose death she governed the kingdom herself. When Heracles was cursed with a dangerous disease as a punishment for the slaying of Iphitus, the oracle informed him that he could only be cured by serving for hire for a period of three years. To effect the cure, Hermes sold him to Omphale, with whom he fell in love, and to please her put on her garments and spun wool, while she wore his lion skin. By him she had several children.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Omphale : Perseus Project Index
Alcaeus. A son of Heracles by a female slave of Jardanus, from whom the dynasty of the Heraclids in Lydia were believed to be descended. (Herod. i. 7.) Diodorus (iv. 31) calls this son of Heracles, Cleolaus. (Comp. Hellanicus, ap. Steph. Byz. s. v. Akele; Wesseling, ad Diod. l. c.)
Son of Alcaeus
Son of Belus
Deiopea, a fair Lydian nymph, who belonged to the suite of Hera, and whom she promised as a reward to Aeolus if he would assist her in destroying the fleet of Aeneas. (Virg. Aen. i. 72.)
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