Back On His Sh*t, Heracles (Hercules) Wants to Get Hitched, Encounters w/ Iole & Omphale (More Heracles Part 1)
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Night of Umphale and Hercules
In the fasti, which i'm referencing from this emma stafford book ofid, tells us of a time when umphale and hercules hold a feaste. During some period when they're together in some kind of consentual, romantic relationship, they hold some special feast,. Afterwards, they mark the night by sleeping in a cave. But not only that, for the feast and the night after, they swapped clothes. They swap thes. Were told that heracles bursts through most of em follies. He breaks her bracelets because he's too big. Her shoes are destroyed by the size of his feet. Still, they go with it. It's their thing
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