Who is Omphale? And what is her background?

Question

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Answer 1

Omphale was a Lydian queen who actually owned Hercules, as a slave. She bought the hero from the god Hermes, who sold him following an oracle which declared that Hercules must be sold into slavery for three years.

Answer 2

In Greek mythology, Omphale was a queen (or princess) of the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor. In one of many variations on this theme, as penalty for his murder of Iphitus, the great demi-god Heracles was, by the Oracle command, sold as a slave to Omphale.

Omphale was daughter of the river Iardanus (also called Iardanes). According to Apollodorus she was the widow of King Tmolus from whom she inherited the throne. There are many references in text and art to Heracles being forced to do women's work and even wear women's clothing and hold a basket of wool while Omphale and her maidens did their spinning. At times Omphale even wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried Heracles' olive-wood club. Unfortunately no full account survives. But it was also during his stay in Lydia that Heracles enslaved the Itones, killed Syleus who forced passersby to hoe his vineyard, and captured the Cercopes.

At some time during this stay, Omphale freed Heracles and took him as her husband.

Omphale's name, derived from Omphalos, a Greek word meaning Navel (or axis), may represent a significant Lydian earth goddess. Herakles' servitude thus may represent the servitude of the sun to the axis of the celestial sphere, the spinners being Lydian versions of the Moirae. Most earth goddess religions contained a priesthood which wore women's clothing, was effeminate, or involved eunuchs. The priest of Herakles, curiously, also wore female clothing, and this myth may represent an attempt to explain the fact.

Answer 3

Omphale is a crack ho I picked up in North Memphis. She had sores on her lips.

Answer 4

for details check this link below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphale