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Iphianassa

Ἰφιάνασσα

(Ἰφιάνασσα), the name of four mythical personages: the first was a daughter of Proetus by Anteia or Stheneboea [PROETUS]; the second a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, and one of the three maidens among whom Achilles was to be allowed to choose (Hom. Il. 9.115, 287); the third was the wife of Endymion (Apollod. 1.7.6), and the fourth one of the Nereides. (Lucian, Dial. Deor. 14.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.