Ianeira or Ianira ( ; Ancient Greek : Ἰάνειρά means 'lady of the Ionians'[Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Scheffero)] was a name attributed to three characters in Greek mythology.
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Ianeira, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, Naiad daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
[Hesiod, Theogony 356] According to the Homeric Hymn, she one of the "deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus" gathering flowers with Persephone when she was abducted by Hades.[ Homeric Hymns to Demeter 2.5 & 2.421]
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Ianeira, one of the 50 , marine-nymph daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanids Doris.
[Homer, Iliad 18.35; Apollodorus, 1.2.7; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface] She and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.[Homer, Iliad 18.39-51]
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Ianeira, possible spouse of Capaneus.
[Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 6.46]
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Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Homeric Hymns, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Hyginus, Gaius Julius, Fabulae in Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae : Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Translated, with Introductions by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Hackett Publishing Company, 2007. .
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Pseudo-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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
