page_title: History of cross-dressing
section_title: Greek
hierarchical_section_title: History of cross-dressing / In mythology / Greek
context_section_description: In punishment for his murder of Iphitus, Heracles/Hercules was given to Omphale as a slave. Many variants of this story say that she not only compelled him to do women's work, but compelled him to dress as a woman while her slave.
  In Achilles on Skyros, Achilles was dressed in women's clothing by his mother Thetis at the court of Lycomedes, to hide him from Odysseus who wanted him to join the Trojan War.
  Athena often goes to the aid of people in the guise of men in The Odyssey.
  Tiresias was turned into a woman after angering the goddess Hera by killing a female snake that was coupling.
  In the cult of Aphroditus, worshipers cross-dressed, men wore women's clothing and women dressed in men's clothing with false beards.
caption: Thor and Loki disguised as women
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