Herodotus' Histories

Iardanos

Role: father of the slave-girl in the Heracleidai lineage · First appears: Book 1 · §1–8

Book 1 · §1–8

  • with Heracles (The passage identifies Iardanos as the father of the slave-girl, and Heracles as the other ancestor of the Heracleidai; it does not state a direct relationship between Iardanos and Heracles.) “From these the Heracleidai, descended from Heracles and the slave-girl of Iardanos, obtained the government, being charged with it by reason of an oracle;”

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