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Opar (fictional city)
Opar is a fictional lost city in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels.
Burroughs may have named it for his hometown at the time he wrote the original Opar novels, Oak Park, Illinois. He may also have taken the name from the Biblical reference to Ophir, whence King Solomon supposedly received a cargo of "gold, silver, sandalwood, precious stones, ivory, apes and peacocks" every three years, via the Red Sea, which was presumably somewhere in Africa, but of which hardly anything else is known.
The city first appeared in the second Tarzan novel, ''The Return of Tarzan'' (1913), and was revisited in the fifth, ''Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar'' (1916), the ninth, ''Tarzan and the Golden Lion'' (1923), and the fourteenth, ''Tarzan the Invincible'' (1930). Exiles from Opar also appear in Burroughs' juvenile story "Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins, with Jad-Bal-Ja, the Golden Lion" (1936, later published as the second part of ''Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins'' in 1963). The events of this story occur between those of ''Lion'' and ''Invincible''.
==In Burroughs==
Opar is located deep in the jungles of Africa. Portrayed as a lost colony of Atlantis in which incredible riches have been stockpiled down through the ages, the city's population exhibits extreme sexual dimorphism caused by a combination of excessive inbreeding, cross-breeding with apes, and selective culling of offspring. Consequently, female Oparians appear perfectly human, while male Oparians are apelike brutes. The ruler and high priestess of the city is Queen La, who on her first encounter with Tarzan falls in love with him, and subsequently carries a torch for him. Tarzan, already committed to Jane Porter, spurns her advances, thus endangering his own life, as the religion of Opar condones human sacrifice. Yet he returns to the lost city time and again to replenish his personal wealth from its hoarded treasure.
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