Iardanus

A king of Lydia, and father of Omphale, who is hence called nympha Iardanis.1 Herodotus2 calls the Heraclidae in Lydia descendants of Heracles and a female slave of Iardanus.

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 6.3; Heroides ix, 103.
  2. i, 7.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.