Ianthe (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Ianthe (Ancient Greek: Ἰάνθη Ianthê) or Janthe^[1] was one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.^[2][3][4] Her name means "she who delights",^[5] or probably from ianthên (heat) or ianthos (violet).

Mythology

Along with her sisters, Ianthe was one of the companions of Persephone when the daughter of Demeter was abducted by Hades.^[6]

Notes

1. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Scheffero)
2. Hesiod, Theogony 349 & 362–366
3. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 41.
4. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 188. ISBN 9780786471119.
5. Hesiod, Theogony 337-370, f.n. 1: "Goettling notes that most Oceanids are called after some quality which their streams possessed."
6. Homeric Hymn to Demeter 418; Pausanias, 4.30.4

References

• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.