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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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
And Acrisius had by Eurydice the daughter of Lacedemon, Danae; and Proetus by Stheneboea 'Lysippe and Iphinoe and Iphianassa'.
From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)
But he has three daughters in his well-built palace,--Chrysothemis, Laodice, and Iphianassa.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
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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