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	Omphale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, Omphale was a queen or princess of Lydia.
		Omphale was daughter of the river Iardanus (also called Iardanes).
		Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1.28.1) indeed does cite a tradition that the supposed founder of the Etruscan settlements was Tyrrhenus the son of Heracles by Omphale the Lydian who drove out the Pelasgians of Italy from the cities north of the Tiber river.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omphale (875 words)

	Omphale -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In (The mythology of the ancient Greeks) Greek mythology, Omphale was a queen or princess of (An ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor; a powerful kingdom until conquered by the Persians in 546 BC) Lydia.
		At times Omphale even wore the skin of the ((Greek mythology) an enormous lion strangled by Hercules as the first of his 12 labors) Nemean Lion and carried Heracle's olive-wood club.
		We know from coins that this Tylon was a native (An extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European) Anatolian god equated with the Greek Heracles.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Om/Omphale.htm (949 words)

	Heracles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Omphale was a queen or princess of Lydia.
		His first marriage was to Megara, whose three children he murdered in a fit of madness and whom he later gave in marriage to his companion Iolaus, because the sight of her was too painful.
		His second wife was Omphale, the Lydian queen or princess to whom he was sold as a slave.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heracles (2030 words)

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		It was why she followed Omphale; never had such a savage fighter taken the field, cleaving bodies in two with a single stroke of her broadsword, smashing single-handed though defences, wading knee-high in enemy blood.
		When Keri met Omphale, it was as though time had been turned backwards and she had a partner again, only this time a partner with whom she was completely and utterly in tune.
		Omphale had accidentally mangled her previous second-in-command and was in dire need of a replacement.
	www.thevalkyrie.com /stories/misc3/vara2.txt (5948 words)

	Part III. The Heroes of the Quest. Chapter IV. The Life and Labors of Heracles. II. Colum, Padraic. 1921. The Golden ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And Omphale laughed to see this tall man dressed in a lion’s skin coming to her house to do a servant’s tasks for her.
		It was while he was in slavery to Omphale that he liberated Theseus from the dungeon in which he was held with Peirithous, and it was while he still was in slavery that he made his journey to Troy.
		He was tired with the journey and made sleepy with the heat of the sun, and when he came within sight of Omphale’s house he lay down by the side of the road, first taking off his armor, and laying aside his bow, his quiver, and his shield.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/72/41.html (1310 words)

	HERAKLES’ FURTHER ADVENTURES: OMPHALE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Omphale had inherited the rule of Lydia (in western Asia Minor) from her husband Tmolos, who died when a mad bull sent by Artemis threw him onto sharp stakes.
		Omphale and Herakles became lovers (husband and wife, in one version) and had a son named Lamos or Agelaos, ancestor of the famous Lydian king Kroisos.
		With Omphale, however, Herakles can temporarily be free of his identity as the greatest of all heroes and of the necessity to prove himself on every occasion.
	www.greecetravel.com /greekmyths/argos10.htm (1274 words)

	Frontline: A Medici Symbol
		Likewise, the club and lion skin Omphale appropriates from Hercules in the myth would seem to be a very definite allusion to the Emperor's expectations for his daughter.
		Having given her to his rather formidable aunt, Margaret of Austria, to be reared and educated, he obviously intended that she would one day play as important a role in the government of the Empire.
		Quite obviously this myth is the source for the Hapbsburg arms and, as such, the choice of the character, Omphale (whose name is derived form the same Greek root) to represent the emperor's daughter is a particularly pointed one.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/emblem.html (2158 words)

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		Omphale closed the door and locked it, leaving key in lock and the guard on the other side.
		Omphale gained her feet, the sword slipped into her hand with a whisper -- as though dead steel drew breath.
		Omphale punctuated her statement with a thrust that nicked my right breast, nearly piercing me mortally.
	www.thevalkyrie.com /stories/misc4/varaunch.txt (6926 words)

	SCARLETS DOMAIN
		Omphale, tall, she would tower a full head over me, beautiful, her beauty is known and admired in all of the seven Kingdoms and a fearless fighter.
		Omphale's arms dropped limply to the sides and her legs splayed and she flopped out dead on the bed.
		Omphale's girls were stripped naked and lashed to this by the wrists so that their nude dead bodies hung like so many beautiful, female sacks in a row.
	necrobabes.org /scarletpimpernel/ufg/barb0.htm (2616 words)

	Jasper Burns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A portrait of Antony and Cleopatra as Heracles and Omphale?
		To the right of this group is a painting of a nude man and fully clothed woman seated together (identified as a Macedonian king and his queen or a pair of divinities) and a painting of a woman holding a polished shield in which a nude man is reflected.
		Another explanation of the painting that deserves consideration is that the figure on the left is the female personification of Macedonia who looks across the Hellespont at the female personification of the Persian Empire (she wears a Persian style headdress) and contemplates Alexander's conquests, her spear already planted in "Asian" soil.
	home.earthlink.net /~jburns31780/gascleop.html (946 words)

	Hercules Unchained (1959)
		Passing under the cascade, Hercules enters Omphale’s throne-room, finding her surrounded by the usual crew of giggly handmaidens, who run off in that way that the women in all these films, who are invariably clad in micro-miniskirts, tend to – i.e.
		Omphale urges her soldiers on, begging, however, that they "spare me Hercules!" This, of course, is the film’s traditional Hercules Wrecks The Palace scene, with the Lidian guards being squished in numbers first beneath a huge marble table, then under statues flung from the top of the staircase.
		Omphale, with her casual use and abuse of any man unfortunate enough to wander across her path, is an unforgettable character.
	twtd.bluemountains.net.au /Rick/liz_herc_print.htm (4990 words)

	Amazon Women Continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After settling down to rule her empire, she was called back to the battlefield to defend it from the uprising of her subjects and lost her life in the process.
		The Amazon queen Omphale was said to have ruled the southern empire of Libya.
		Omphale bought Heracles in a sale of slaves and had him weave, spin and card wool as well as many other duties.
	www.lakekillarney.com /newsAmazons2.htm (788 words)

	Heracles (Hercules) - Olga's Gallery
		Heracles (known to the Latins as Hercules) is the best-known and most popular hero in the classical mythology; he was the son of a mortal woman and Zeus himself.
		One of the stories about Heracles is his slavery under Omphale, the queen of Lydia.
		Omphale, admiring her slave’s exploits and learning of his parentage, freed and then married him.
	www.abcgallery.com /mythology/heracles.html (97 words)

	And You Call Yourself a Scientist! - Hercules And The Queen Of Lidia (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At that, Omphale invites Hercules to sit beside her, telling him that he is King of Lidia – and her husband.
		Now, pre-credits we saw a perplexing series of events involving Queen Omphale of Lidia and an unidentified young man. As a second man, unconscious on a stretcher, was carried into Omphale’s presence, she was seen to gesture to her soldiers, five of whom drew their swords and hacked the young man to death.
		Omphale faces his fury, confident that he will not hurt her, as he must know that she truly loves him.
	twtd.bluemountains.net.au /Rick/liz_herc.htm (5047 words)

	JUSTINE by Marquis de Sade - 21
		Omphale, inhabiting the other room, was only in this to indoctrinate me; were I to wish it, she would remain with me, and one of the others would take her place in her own chamber; I asked to have the arrangement made.
		The seventh was thirty-eight; a true model of figure and beauty: she was the superintendent of my room; Omphale forewarned me of her malicious temper and, principally, of her taste for women.
		Omphale asked permission of Ursule, which was the superintendent's name, to instruct me; Ursule consented upon condition I kiss her.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Justine/00000031.htm (1841 words)

	Omphale Haliday, 1833
		Most keys are misleading on this point, making Omphale one of the most difficult genera of Entedoninae to consistently identify accurately.
		Some Omphale have only 1 pair of mesoscutal setae as well, but they can be distinguished by the v-shaped transverse frontal groove and the number of setal tracks radiating from the stigma.
		This genus is only rarely confusable with Omphale, but there are some Mexican species of Omphale with the interscrobal ridge not reaching the transverse frontal groove that could be misplaced here (see Hansson 1997).
	faculty.ucr.edu /~heraty/Eulophidae/Omphale_page.html (980 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Classical Art
		Hercules appears in statues and paintings wearing the feminine garments of Queen Omphale, who had such control over the hero that she could exchange clothes with him and make him sit spinning with her female courtiers.
		Omphale always appears nude with the lion skin and club of Hercules, and the nature of her cross-dressing is always confused by her nudity and presentation as feminine.
		The same problem attaches to depictions of the Amazons, whose femininity is always asserted through pose, exposure of breasts and legs, and the deeper fact of their invariably being defeated by Greek men.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/classical_art,3.html (1581 words)

	JUSTINE by Marquis de Sade - 25
		In the event Omphale were to be released, she swore in the same way to aid me, and both of us fell to weeping.
		I asked the monk whether I might be allowed to accompany Omphale to the door of the house; his reply was a glance that made me recoil in terror....
		Omphale goes out, she turns toward us eyes filled with uneasiness and tears, and the minute she is gone I fling myself down upon the bed, desperate.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Justine/00000035.htm (1255 words)

	Omphale Art Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Omphale is open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 10-4 and Saturday 12-4.
		Some artist meet regulary at Omphale to work together on their art and you're welcome to join them.
		Founded as a private gallery by Greta Hendrickson in 1989, in 1992 Greta moved and Omphale became a cooperative gallery run by volunteer
	www.omphale.org (153 words)

	OMPHALE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"OMPHALE" is a common misspelling or typo for: Homophile, Impala, Impale, Impaled, Mohole, Opal, Ophelia.
		He fell in love with her, and led an effeminate life spinning wool, while Omphale wore the lion's skin and was lady paramount.
		The celebrated picture of Hercules spinning in the presence of Omphale, by Annibal Carracei, is in the Farnese Gallery.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Om/Omphale.html (402 words)

	Save Water, Shower with a Friend
		I sent an email to my other good buddy halee to see if she were driving up here for Easter.
		If she is, I'm hoping Omphale can ride with her up here, which would allow her to take a flight to DFW, instead of Amarillo.
		Omphale used to date this brother-in-law of mine who is here this week, so I've got to make sure he's not going to be coming back up for Easter with his new girlfriend.
	hydrogeek.diaryland.com /050307_62.html (401 words)

	Heroic Transvestism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But Zeus punished Heracles with one year's enslavement to Omphale, the queen of Lydia, in Asia Minor, where all good little kingdoms go when they die: Thynia and Bithynia, Pontus and Metapontus, Cilicia, Cappadocia, Pamplygonia--you know, Turkey.
		Omphale forced Heracles, all year, to dress as a woman and do women's chores.
		Heracles' enslavement to Omphale occurs just before the chain of events that led directly to his death, his rite of passage from mortality to immortality.
	www.travel-italy.com /ct/episodes/heroic.html (411 words)

	untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abstract.- Hand-pairing of a reared virgin female of Agrias amydon ferdinandi (yellow form) with a wild-captured male Prepona "omphale" rhenea gave seven male progeny with a mixed phenotype, predominating the color-pattern of the mother.
		In a third cross, striking "intergeneric" hybrids were obtained from a female of A. claudina godmani Fruhstorfer hand-paired to a male of Prepona "omphale" rhenea Fruhstorfer (FURTADO, in press-b).
		1) and a male of Prepona "omphale" rhenea (Fig.
	www.gate71.be /~jhecq/furtado.htm (373 words)

	Locrine
		Ate brings another dumb show, this time of Omphale, daughter of the king of Lydia, with a club and a lion skin.
		Omphale whacks him with a slipper on the head and they exit.
		Hercules was a conqueror on the field and over monsters but yielded to love of Omphale and became "maidenly" (IV.i.10).
	www.wsu.edu:8001 /~delahoyd/shakespeare/locrine4.html (1080 words)

	Terracotta Sculpture - Hercules and Omphale (sometimes called Hercules and Iole) - Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery ...
		The god Pan was in love with the Queen and on visiting her bedchamber, mistook the feminine Hercules for Omphale, leaping into bed with 'her'.
		Hercules reacted violently, swiftly kicking Pan to the floor.The sculpture depicts Omphale with her arm around Hercules, she wears his lion skin.
		The arms of Hercules, and one of Omphale's arms are now missing so we can no longer be sure what they held in their hands.
	www.bmagic.org.uk /objects/1967P53 (253 words)

	Petticoat Punishment in Erotic Literature
		When Heracles in consequence of the murder of Iphitus was ill of a serious disease, and received the oracle that he could not be released unless he served someone for wages for the space of three years, Hermes accordingly sold Heracles to Omphale.
		The text goes on, “Hercules served Omphale as a slave, and in the course of his servitude he seized and bound the Cercopes at Ephesus”.
		The second stage is when they become lovers, and a son is born to Omphale (see Diodorus of Sicily, 'The Library of History', Loeb edition, II, pp.441-445).
	www.petticoated.com /petpunessay5.htm (3490 words)

	Omphale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Omphale era hija del río Iardanus (también llamado Iardanes).
		Omphale incluso usó ocasionalmente la piel del león de Nemean y llevó a club de la aceituna-madera de Heracle.
		No obstante Diodorus Siculus se relaciona que cuando Heracles era esclavo de Omphale inmóvil, antes de que Omphale (hija de Iardanus) fijara Heracles libre y lo casara, Heracles engendró a hijo Cleodaeus en una esclavo-mujer.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/om/Omphale.htm (838 words)

	Creating a Modern Lupercalia Celebration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Those men who took part would be dressed in the skins of the goats, and nothing else (if even that), with so little left concealed that there could be no possible doubt that they were male.
		Hercules and his lover, Omphale, before they went to sleep, decided to exchange garments.
		Fooled by the softness of the robe Hercules was wearing, Faunus made advances on Hercules, who did not appreciate this sort of attention, at all.
	demipagan.freeyellow.com /lupercalia2.html (882 words)

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