The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Ianthe

Also known as: Iänthe · Family: Phæstian · Role: daughter of Telestes; bride of Iphis · First appears: Fable 82

Life events

  • Ligdus promises Iphis in marriage to Ianthe.(Fable82 · 📍 Phæstus)
    • With: Ligdus Iphis
    • “In the meantime the third year had {now} succeeded the tenth, when her father, O Iphis, promised to thee, in marriage, the yellow-haired Iänthe, who was a virgin the most commended among all the women of Phæstus, for the endowments of her beauty;”
  • Iphis, now a youth, marries Ianthe.(Fable82)
    • With: Iphis
    • “The following morn has disclosed the wide world with the rays {of the Sun}; when Venus, and Juno, and Hymenæus, repair to the social fires[80]; and Iphis, {now} a youth, gains his {dear} Iänthe.”

Fable 82

  • parent: Telestes “Iänthe, who was a virgin the most commended among all the women of Phæstus, for the endowments of her beauty; the daughter of the Dictæan Telestes.”
  • engaged with Iphis “In the meantime the third year had {now} succeeded the tenth, when her father, O Iphis, promised to thee, in marriage, the yellow-haired Iänthe”
  • courtship with Iphis “Love, in consequence, touches the inexperienced breasts of them both, and inflicts on each an equal wound”
  • married with Iphis “The following morn has disclosed the wide world with the rays {of the Sun}; when Venus, and Juno, and Hymenæus, repair to the social fires[80]; and Iphis, {now} a youth, gains his {dear} Iänthe.”
  • with Ligdus (interaction) “In the meantime the third year had {now} succeeded the tenth, when her father, O Iphis, promised to thee, in marriage, the yellow-haired Iänthe,”

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