In Greek mythology, Tmolus was a mountain god and husband to Omphale (but see below). He judged the musical contest between Pan and Apollo. Greek mythology consists of an extensive collection of narratives detailing the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, which were first envisioned and disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition. ... God is the term used to denote the Supreme Being ascribed by monotheistic religions to be the creator, ruler and/or the sum total of, existence. ... In Greek mythology, Omphale was a queen or princess of Lydia. ... Marble sculpture of Pan copulating with a goat, recovered from Herculaneum Pan (Greek Παν, genitive Πανος) is the Greek god who watches over shepherds and their flocks. ... For other uses, see Apollo (disambiguation). ...

Mount Tmolus, of which Tmolus was the namesake, lies in Lydia, or Phrygia (modern-day Turkey), between Sardis and Hypaepae. Lydia (disambiguation) Lydia is a historic region of western Anatolia, congruent with Turkeys modern provinces of Ä°zmir and Manisa. ... Location of Phrygia - traditional region (yellow) - expanded kingdom (orange line) In antiquity, Phrygia was a kingdom in the west central part of the Anatolian highlands, part of modern Turkey, from ca. ... Sardis, (also Sardes) the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, the seat of a conventus under the Roman Empire, and the metropolis of the province Lydia in later Roman and Byzantine times, was situated in the middle Hermus valley, at the foot of Mt. ...

The geography of Tmolus and the contest between Pan and Apollo are mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses, XI.168. Bush is the worst president~ signed the black shark ... Cover of George Sandyss 1632 edition of The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world in terms of Greek and Roman mythology. ...

There may actually be two different personages named Tmolus, both mythical kings of Lydia. The first, a son of Sipylus and Chthonia, was the husband of Plouto and stepfather of Tantalus. The second Tmolus, a son of Ares and Theogone, lived later and was the husband of Omphale. This Tmolus, son of Ares, was gored to death by a boar on the mountain that bears his name; his widow, Omphale, thereby became Queen of Lydia. Lydia (disambiguation) Lydia is a historic region of western Anatolia, congruent with Turkeys modern provinces of Ä°zmir and Manisa. ... In Greek mythology, Plouto was a nymph and the mother of Tantalus by Zeus. ... This article is about Tantalus from Greek mythology. ... This article is about Ares, the Greek god of war. ...

References

• Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 11, tr. Arthur Golding. http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/ovid11.htm