Iphianassa

In Greek mythology, Iphianassa (/ˌɪfiəˈnæsə/; Ancient Greek: Ίφιάνασσα Īphianassa means 'strong queen' or 'rule strongly'^[1]) is a name that refers to several characters.

• Iphianassa, one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[1][2]
• Iphianassa, consort of King Endymion of Elis and mother of Aetolus.^[3][4] The wife of Endymion was otherwise known as Asterodia, Chromia, Hyperippe or a nameless Naiad nymph.^[5][6]
• Iphianassa, one of the three maenadic daughters of the Argive king Proetus by Stheneboea who were purified of their madness by Melampus. Iphianassa eventually married Melampus.^[7][8]
• Iphianassa, a Mycenaean princess as the daughter of King Agamemnon and Clytemnestra,^[9] perhaps the same as Iphigenia.
• Iphianassa, mother of Menalces by Medon of Cilla. Her son was killed by Neoptolemus.^[10]

Notes

1. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 191. ISBN 9780786471119.
2. Lucian, Dialogi Marini 14
3. Apollodorus, 1.7.6
4. Graves, Robert (1960). The Greek Myths. Harmondsworth, London, England: Penguin Books. pp. 64.a. ISBN 978-0143106715.
5. Pausanias, 5.1.4
6. William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 16, under Endymion Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
7. Apollodorus, 2.2.2; Servius on Virgil, Eclogue 6.48
8. Graves, Robert (1960). The Greek Myths. Harmondsworth, London, England: Penguin Books. pp. 72.g, j, k. ISBN 978-0143106715.
9. Homer, Iliad 9.155 & 287
10. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 8.295–297

References

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• Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, Harmondsworth, London, England, Penguin Books, 1960. ISBN 978-0143106715
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues of the Sea Gods translated by Fowler, H W and F G. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1905. Online version at theoi.com
• Luciani Samosatensis, Opera. Vol I. Karl Jacobitz. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1896. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.