Iphianassa

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[if-ee-uh-nas-uh] / ˌɪf i əˈnæs ə /

noun

1. (in theIliad ) a daughter of Agamemnon, offered to Achilles as a wife if he would return to battle against the Trojans.

2. 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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Example Sentences

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)

Now, I have three daughters in my well-built palace,--Chrysothemis, Laodice, and Iphianassa.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois

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