Iardanes
Ἰαρδάνης
(Ἰαρδάνης), a king of Lydia, and father of Omphale, who is hence called nympha Iardanis. (Apollod. 2.6.3; Ov. Ep. 9.103.) Herodotus (1.7) calls the Heracleidae in Lydia descendants of Heracles and a female slave of lardanus.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.