Pausanias' Description of Greece

Ianthe

First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 30

In Book 4, Chapter 30, Ianthe is named among the daughters of Oceanus. She played with Proserpine, daughter of Demeter, in a pleasant meadow alongside her sisters Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, Melobosis, Fortune, and Ocyroe: “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”

Relationship record

Book 4 · Chapter 30

  • parent: Oceanus “enumerating the other daughters of Oceanus, how they played with Demeter’s daughter Proserpine, and among them Fortune”
  • siblings with Leucippe “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • siblings with Phæno “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • siblings with Electra (daughter of Oceanus) “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • siblings with Melobosis “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • siblings with Fortune “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • siblings with Ocyroe “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • friends with Proserpine “how they played with Demeter’s daughter Proserpine”

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →

Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.

Explore the whole book in Rho MD — free.

Get Rho MD — free
Open in Rho MD →