Greek Mythology

Iphinoe

Role: daughter of Proetus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.2

Life events

  • Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa went mad and wandered throughout Argos.(Apollodorus, Library 2.2 · 📍 the whole Argive land)
    • With: Lysippe Iphianassa
    • “Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea. When these damsels were grown up, they went mad”
  • Iphinoe died during the pursuit, while the remaining daughters later recovered and married.(Apollodorus, Library 2.2 · 📍 Sicyon)
    • With: Proetus Melampus 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”

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 Iphianassa “and Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea.”
  • 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 (Iphinoe 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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