Iphianassa
Americannoun
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(in theIliad ) a daughter of Agamemnon, offered to Achilles as a wife if he would return to battle against the Trojans.
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a daughter of Proetus and Antia who, with her sisters Iphinoë and Lysippe, was inflicted with madness for her irreverence toward the gods.
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But he has three daughters in his well-built palace,--Chrysothemis, Laodice, and Iphianassa.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
Chrysothemis shall be thy bride; or else Laodice; or if she please thee more355 Iphianassa; and from thee he asks No dower; himself will such a dower bestow As never father on his child before.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
Now, I have three daughters in my well-built palace,--Chrysothemis, Laodice, and Iphianassa.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
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