Editing Omphale (section)

==In art==
[[File:Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Herkules bei Omphale (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum).jpg|thumb|right|Hercules and Omphale's maids, by [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]]  ]]
[[File:Hercules at the feet of Omphale.jpg|thumb|Hercules at the feet of Omphale by Édouard Joseph Dantan]]
* ''[[Omphale (Destouches)|Omphale]]'' is an opera by the French composer [[André Cardinal Destouches]], first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the [[Paris Opera]]) on 10 November 1701.
* One of the most famous symphonic poems in a mythological series composed by the French composer [[Camille Saint-Saëns]] in the 1870s is titled ''[[Le Rouet d'Omphale]]'' ("The Spinning Wheel of Omphale") the ''rouet'' being a spinning wheel that the queen and her maidens used—in this version of the myth, it was Delphic [[Apollo]] who condemned the hero to serve the Lydian queen disguised as a woman. In the twentieth century, during the "Golden Age of Radio", this symphonic poem gained wider public exposure when it was used as the theme music for ''[[The Shadow]]''.
* ''Hercules and Omphale or The Power of Love'' is a "classical [[extravaganza]]" which premiered at Royal [[St James's Theatre|St. James's Theatre]] in London on 26 December 1864. Written by [[William Brough (writer)|William Brough]], with music composed and arranged by Wallerstein, the piece was directed by [[Charles James Mathews|Charles Matthews]]. Hercules was played ''[[Travesti (theatre)|en travesti]]'' by Charlotte Saunders (possibly [[Charlotte Cushman|Charlotte Cushman Saunders]]), with a Miss Herbert as Omphale.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Clarence|first=Reginald|title=The Stage Cyclopaedia - a Bibliography of Plays|publisher=Burt Franklin|year=1909|location=New York|pages=197}}</ref><ref>Theatre programme: first performance ''Hercules and Omphale or The Power of Love'', Royal St. James's Theatre.</ref>
* ''Hercules und Omphale'' is a painting by the sixteenth-century German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder. It features Hercules being dressed up as a woman by Omphale and two maids. Hercules is also spinning wool. 
* ''Hercules at the feet of Omphale'' is a painting by the French nineteenth-century painter [[Édouard Joseph Dantan]]. Hercules is depicted sitting at the feet of Omphale, spinning wool.
* "Hercule et Omphale" is a short, sexually explicit poem by the [[French poet]] [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] appearing in the erotic (and for many years forbidden) novel ''[[Les onze mille verges]]'' (''The Eleven Thousand Penises'').<ref>For the text, see [http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Onze_Mille_Verges_ou_les_Amours_d%E2%80%99un_Hospodar ''Les onze mille verges'']</ref>
* In August Strindberg's ''The Father (1887)'', the protagonist, Captain Adolf, likens his wife's mistreatment of him to Omphale's behavior toward Heracles. "Omphale!" He screams. "It's Queen Omphale herself! Now you play with Hercules' club while he spins your wool!"