Iphianassa
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In Greek mythology, Iphianassa ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|ɪ|f|i|ə|ˈ|n|æ|s|ə}}; Ancient Greek: Ίφιάνασσα Īphianassa means 'strong queen' or 'rule strongly'{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|page=191}}) 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.Lucian, Dialogi Marini 14
- Iphianassa, consort of King Endymion of Elis and mother of Aetolus.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=7&highlight=Iphianassa 1.7.6]{{Cite book|last=Graves|first=Robert|title=The Greek Myths|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1960|isbn=978-0143106715|location=Harmondsworth, London, England|pages=64.a}} The wife of Endymion was otherwise known as Asterodia, Chromia, Hyperippe or a nameless Naiad nymph.Pausanias, 5.1.4{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514035626/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1124.html William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 16, under Endymion]}}
- 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.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.2.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=2:chapter=2&highlight=Iphianassa 2.2.2]; Servius on Virgil, Eclogue 6.48{{Cite book|last=Graves|first=Robert|title=The Greek Myths|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1960|isbn=978-0143106715|location=Harmondsworth, London, England|pages=72.g, j, k}}
- Iphianassa, a Mycenaean princess as the daughter of King Agamemnon and Clytemnestra,Homer, Iliad 9.155 & 287 perhaps the same as Iphigenia.
- Iphianassa, mother of Menalces by Medon of Cilla. Her son was killed by Neoptolemus.Quintus Smyrnaeus, 8.295–297
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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|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
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- Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues of the Sea Gods translated by Fowler, H W and F G. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1905. [https://www.theoi.com/Text/LucianDialoguesGods2.html Online version at theoi.com]
- Luciani Samosatensis, Opera. Vol I. Karl Jacobitz. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1896. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0525 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}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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