Iphianassa

Role: daughter of Proetus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.7

Iphianassa was a daughter of Proetus and Stheneboea, alongside Lysippe and Iphinoe. Another account says Endymion had a son, Aetolus, by Iphianassa.

“When these damsels were grown up,” Iphianassa went mad and wandered throughout Argos with Lysippe and Iphinoe. Iphinoe died during the pursuit, while Iphianassa and Lysippe were purified and recovered their wits; Proetus then gave them in marriage to Melampus and Bias. According to Hesiod, their madness came because they would not accept the rites of Dionysus, while Acusilaus attributed it to their disparaging the wooden image of Hera.

Relationship record

Life events

• Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa went mad and wandered throughout Argos.(Apollodorus, Library 2.2 · 📍 the whole Argive land)
  • With: Lysippe Iphinoe
  • “Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea. When these damsels were grown up, they went mad”

Apollodorus, Library 1.7

• child: Aetolus “Endymion had by a Naiad nymph or, as some say, by Iphianassa, a son Aetolus”

Apollodorus, Library 2.2

• parent: Proetus “and Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea.”
• parent: Stheneboea “and Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea.”
• siblings with Lysippe “and Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea.”
• siblings with Iphinoe “and Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea.”
• married with Melampus “In the pursuit Iphinoe, the eldest of the daughters, expired; but the others were lucky enough to be purified and so to recover their wits. Proetus gave them in marriage to Melampus and Bias,”
• married with Bias “In the pursuit Iphinoe, the eldest of the daughters, expired; but the others were lucky enough to be purified and so to recover their wits. Proetus gave them in marriage to Melampus and Bias,”
• with Hesiod (Hesiod gives an account of the cause of the daughters' madness.) “they went mad, according to Hesiod, because they would not accept the rites of Dionysus”
• with Dionysus (Iphianassa refused the rites of Dionysus.) “because they would not accept the rites of Dionysus”
• with Acusilaus (Acusilaus gives an account of the cause of the daughters' madness.) “but according to Acusilaus, because they disparaged the wooden image of Hera”
• with Hera (interaction) “they disparaged the wooden image of Hera”

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