Kings of Lydia - Atyads (Tantalids)

Atyads (Tantalids)

Herodotus gives the eponymous Manes as the first king of Maeonia, with a son named Atys (Atyllus). Other sources, such as Strabo, name Tmolus and his son Tantalus as kings of the region at the same time, ruling from Sipylus. Since Omphale is a member of both these families, it is conjectured that they are identical.

• Manes (king)
• Atys
• Lydus

• The 1768 Universal History (Sale et al), citing various classical sources, inserts the following kings of Lydia between Lydus and Tmolus: Alcymus, Adrymetes, Cambletes.

• Tmolus - (Gored to death by a bull)

• Sale's Universal History inserts the following kings of Lydia between Tmolus and Omphale: Theoclymenos, Marsyas, and Iardanus.

• Omphale - (Widow of Tmolus, after whom she reigned. The reign was taken over by the Tylonids or Heraclids through her)

• Tantalus (son of Zeus and Plouto, stepson of Tmolus, offered up his son Pelops in a feast for the gods)
• (Tantalus) (son of Broteas, married Clytemnestra but never reigned in Lydia)