Iphianassa

In Greek mythology, Iphianassa (Template:IPAc-en; Ancient Greek: Ίφιάνασσα Īphianassa means 'strong queen' or 'rule strongly'<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref>) 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Lucian, Dialogi Marini 14</ref>
• Iphianassa, consort of King Endymion of Elis and mother of Aetolus.<ref>Apollodorus, 1.7.6</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The wife of Endymion was otherwise known as Asterodia, Chromia, Hyperippe or a nameless Naiad nymph.<ref>Pausanias, 5.1.4</ref><ref>Template:Usurped</ref>
• 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.<ref>Apollodorus, 2.2.2; Servius on Virgil, Eclogue 6.48</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Iphianassa, a Mycenaean princess as the daughter of King Agamemnon and Clytemnestra,<ref>Homer, Iliad 9.155 & 287</ref> perhaps the same as Iphigenia.
• Iphianassa, mother of Menalces by Medon of Cilla. Her son was killed by Neoptolemus.<ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, 8.295–297</ref>

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, Harmondsworth, London, England, Penguin Books, 1960. Template:ISBN
• 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. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Template:ISBN. 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. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.