In an antique fresco from the home of the Prince of Montenegro at Pompeii, a drunken Heracles is on the floor as Omphale and maidservants look on from above.
Abode
Lydia
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Parents
Iardanus of Lydia
Consort
Tmolus, Heracles
Children
Sons by Heracles
In Greek mythology, Omphale (/ˈɒmfəˌliː/; Ancient Greek: Ὀμφάλη) was queen of the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor. Diodorus Siculus provides the first appearance of the Omphale theme in literature, though Aeschylus was aware of the episode.[1] The Greeks did not recognize her as a goddess: the undisputed etymological connection with omphalos, the world-navel, has never been made clear.[2] In her best-known myth, she is the mistress of the hero Heracles during a year of required servitude, a scenario that, according to some,[citation needed] offered writers and artists opportunities to explore sexual roles and erotic themes.
^Aeschylus, Agamemnon, lines 1024-25.
^"No connection between the two has been established, difficult as it is to believe there was no connection between them in early religion." (Elmer G. Suhr. "Herakles and Omphale", American Journal of Archaeology57:4 (October 1953), 251-263 (p. 259f.).
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