Iphianassa

 ( Nereids ) 

In Greek mythology, Iphianassa (; Ancient Greek: Ίφιάνασσα Īphianassa means 'strong queen' or 'rule strongly'

) 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 Doris.Lucian, Dialogi Marini 14
• Iphianassa, consort of King Endymion of Ancient Elis and mother of Aetolus.Apollodorus, 1.7.6
  Robert Graves (1960). 9780143106715, Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143106715
  The wife of Endymion was otherwise known as Asterodia, Chromia, Hyperippe or a nameless Naiad nymph.Pausanias, 5.1.4
• Iphianassa, one of the three daughters of the Argive king Proetus by Stheneboea who were purified of their madness by Melampus. Iphianassa eventually married Melampus.Apollodorus, 2.2.2; Servius on Virgil, Eclogues 6.48
  Robert Graves (1960). 9780143106715, Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143106715
• Iphianassa, a 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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Notes

• 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.
• Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, Harmondsworth, London, England, Penguin Books, 1960.
• Homer, 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.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Lucian, 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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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