Ianthe Explained

Ianthe (Ἰάνθη; English translation: "purple or azul flower") may refer to:

Greek mythology

• Ianthe, Cretan girl who married Iphis after Isis turned Iphis from a woman into a man
• Ianthe (mythology), one of the 3,000 Oceanids

People

• Ianthe Elizabeth Brautigan (born 1960), American writer, daughter of Richard Brautigan
• Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal
• Ianthe, Lord Byron's nickname for Lady Charlotte Harley, to whom Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is dedicated
• Ianthe, Walter Savage Landor's nickname for his unrequited love Sophia Jane Swift
• Ianthe, nickname of actress Mary Saunderson
• Ianthe, a pen-name of Emma Catherine Embury

Fiction

• Ianthe, character in Queen Mab (poem) by Percy Bysshe Shelley who named a daughter Ianthe (1813–1876)
• Ianthe, love interest of the main character in John William Polidori's The Vampyre
• Ianthe, character in Roelstra's Line in the Dragon Prince series
• Ianthe, fictional city in works by Robert E. Howard
• Ianthe, character in An Unsuitable Attachment, a posthumous work by Barbara Pym
• Ianthe, character in Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, a 1957 book by Georgette Heyer
• Ianthe, character in A Court Of Mist And Fury, 2016 book by Sarah J. Maas
• Ianthe, character in House of Names, 2017 book by Colm Tóibín
• Ianthe, spirit in "Al Aaraaf," 1829 poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• Ianthe, character in The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

Species

• Kylix ianthe, a sea snail in the family Drilliidae
• Pieris ianthe; see Belenois hedyle
• Dichomeris ianthes; see Dichomeris acuminata
• Pseudoneptis bugandensis ianthe; see Pseudoneptis

Other

• Lake Ianthe, a lake on the West Coast of New Zealand 's South Island
• 98 Ianthe, a main belt asteroid
• Ianthe, Trademark owned by Ian Heath Ltd of Birmingham, England in silverware goods.
• Ianthe, fabric and leatherwork pattern owned by Liberty of London Co.