Ianthe
# Ianthe

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.
