✨Hercules and Omphale✨

To atone for the murder of the Argonaut Iphitus, Hercules is required to spend a year in servitude under the Lydian princess Omphale. During this year, Hercules is sometimes lampooned as having to dress as a woman as he is seen in this fresco and to play whatever role Omphale saw as fit for him.

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Musical Interlude: OK, more Saint-Saëns. Sorry, I'm on a kick lately. Here's one of his symphonic poems...it's based on an ancient Greek myth where Heracles is forced to serve a queen and spin for her....but some of you will want to intone "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" before it's over.

"Le rouet d'Omphale (Omphale's Spinning Wheel)," composed by Camille Saint-Saëns, performed by an unidentified orchestra, possibly the London Sinfonietta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96aapx3DFdM

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Saint-Saëns - Le rouet d'Omphale, opus 31

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