Editing 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'<ref name=":0">{{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}}</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 [[Oceanids|Oceanid]] [[Doris (Oceanid)|Doris]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>[[Lucian]], ''Dialogi Marini'' 14</ref>
* Iphianassa, consort of King [[Endymion (mythology)|Endymion]] of [[Ancient Elis|Elis]] and mother of [[Aetolus of Aetolia|Aetolus]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|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]</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> The wife of Endymion was otherwise known as [[Asterodia]], [[Chromia]], [[Hyperippe]] or a nameless [[Naiad]] nymph.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 5.1.4</ref><ref>{{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]}}</ref>
* Iphianassa, one of the three [[maenad]]ic daughters of the [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argive]] king [[Proetus]] by [[Stheneboea]] who were purified of their madness by [[Melampus]]. Iphianassa eventually married Melampus.<ref>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]; [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]] on [[Virgil]], ''[[Eclogues|Eclogue]]'' 6.48</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[Iphianassa (daughter of Agamemnon)|Iphianassa]], a [[Mycenae]]an 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 (mythology)|Medon]] of [[Cilla (mythology)|Cilla]]. Her son was killed by [[Neoptolemus]].<ref>[[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], 8.295–297</ref>

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== References ==

* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|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. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
* [[Robert Graves|Graves, Robert]], ''The Greek Myths'', Harmondsworth, London, England, Penguin Books, 1960. {{ISBN|978-0143106715}}
* [[Homer]], [[Iliad|''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.]
* Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|978-0198145318|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Lucian|Lucian of Samosata]], ''Dialogues of the Sea Gods'' translated by Fowler, H W and F G. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1905. [http://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 (geographer)|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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