ABSTRACT

A daughter of Iardanus and queen of Lydia; for she married Tmolus, an early king of the country. After her husband’s death, she ruled in her own right, and when Heracles was sold into slavery she bought him, making him wear women’s clothes. On her behalf he performed many deeds, killing the outlaw Syleus, destroying a monstrous serpent that was plaguing the country, and sacking the city of the hostile Itoni. She bore him a son, Lamus.