Iardanus (father of Omphale)

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]

^ 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).
^ 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.

[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.

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