Iphias

That is, a daughter of Iphis, a name applied to Evadne, the wife of Capaneus.

Iphias is also the name of a priestess mentioned in the story about the Argonauts.1

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References

Notes

  1. Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica i, 312.

Sources

  • Euripides. Suppliants, 985 ff.
  • Ovid. Letters from the Black Sea iii, 1, 111.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.