Omphale Greek The queen of Lydia who took the hero Heracles as her slave after he had desecrated the temple of Apollo.
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Omphale Greek The queen of Lydia who took the hero Heracles as her slave after he had desecrated the temple of Apollo. Heracles performed many services for the queen, including ridding her kingdom of the two mischievous cercopes.
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- Iphicles Greek Halfbrother of the hero Heracles; son of Amphitryon, a prince of Tiryns, and his wife, Alcmene, who was a daughter of the king of Mycenae; husband to Automedusa, and later, to the youngest daughter of King Creon of Thebes.
- Nessus Greek The Centaur who caused the death of the hero Heracles.
- Penthesilea Greek Amazon queen who led her female warriors to Troy to help the Trojans in the Trojan War.
- Virgo (Virgin) Greek One of the constellations; sixth sign of the Zodiac, named for the maiden Erigone, who hanged herself from a tree after finding the grave of her murdered father, Icarius of Attica.
- Laestrygonians Greek A race of giant cannibals who devoured many of the crewmen of the ships of Odysseus when the hero anchored near their island.