Omphale

Family: Lydia · Role: Lydian ruler · First appears: Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 2

Life events

• Heracles was sold into bondage among the Lydians and served Omphale for a year.(Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 2)
  • With: Heracles
  • “The greater while he was detained Among the Lydians, sold, as he declares, To bondage. Nor be jealous of the word, Since Heaven, my Queen, was author of the deed. Enthrallèd so to Asian Omphalè, He, as himself avers, fulfilled his year.”

Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 2

• with Heracles (Omphale held Heracles in bondage.) “Enthrallèd so to Asian Omphalè, / He, as himself avers, fulfilled his year.”
• with Heracles (Omphale held Heracles in bondage.) “Enth rallèd so to Asian Omphalè, He, as himself avers, fulfilled his year.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.