#iphianassa

[sarafangirlart]

Danaë in her tower

Sometimes her prison is an underground chamber (which is probably the version y’all are familiar with) but I like the one with the tower bc it ties her to Rapunzel, ever since I’ve realized their commonalities I’ve been thinking about them lol

I like to think Danaë took up several hobbies to pass the time much like Rapunzel, but unlike Rapunzel, she actually remembers her life before her imprisonment and misses her friends, the girls she’s playing with in the fresco are her cousins Nyctaea and Iphianassa.

[canary-of-the-ocean]

I know Iphianassa (one of the daughters Agamemnon mentioned in the Iliad) could be a seperate figure from Iphigenia but the possibilities that they are the same person and Iphigenia was never sacrificed in Homer's version is so funny, because it means it's not the whole "her husband sacrificed her daughter" that make Clytemnestra hate Agamemnon, it's just Agamemnon himself that she can't stand

[kingbryancroidragon]

Easiest way to know someone never read the Iliad? They refer to events or characters from the Trojan War that weren't in the Iliad.

The sacrifice of Iphigenia was not in the Iliad, in fact taking into account that the name of Iphianassa, one of Agamemnon's three daughters in the Iliad, may simply be an older variant of "Iphigenia" and her being offered as Achilles' wife, would suggest she wasn't sacrificed or spirited away to Tauris but still living in Mycenae.

The death of Achilles and his heel was not in the Iliad. He was not nearly invulnerable, the whole heel thing comes from the Achilleid. In the Iliad, Achilles gets his hand injured by Asteropaios and it is even a plot point that he needed a new set of armour.

For a third and final example, the Trojan Horse was not in the Iliad. It is briefly alluded to in the Odyssey and shown in full in the Aenied, but it is not in the Iliad.

The Iliad does not cover the entire Trojan War. This needs to become more well-known.

[venomspecs]

The presence of Iphianassa in Sophocles' Electra is so interesting. I knew she was named in the play beforehand because of some notes to the Iliad in relation to Agamemnon's daughters in Homer and the notable absence of Iphigenia and the presence of another, very similarly-named daughter, Iphianassa. The other tragedians don't mention her but Sophocles does, and still it's barely a passing mention, just like in the Iliad. So we basically know nothing about her, other than the fact that her name is veery similar to Iphigenia, who is also named in both. It's all just a bit puzzling. What did Sophocles mean by including her, I wonder? To take a stance in the Iphianassa-Iphigenia debate, maybe?

[deathlessathanasia]

The Names of Agamemnon’s Daughters and the Death of Iphigenia – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Names of Agamemnon’s Daughters and the Death of Iphigenia

The sacrifice of Iphigenia is a pivotal moment in the tale of the House of Atreus—it motivates Agamemnon’s murder and in turn the matricide

[hermesmoly]

I guess one way to make Iphianassa interesting is making her a twin of Orestes, the true youngest, a non threat to Clytemnestra and possibly close to Erigone and her other half siblings. Maybe even a girl who was grew up raised by Aegisthus, which isolated her from her full sisters who remember and love their murdered father. Maybe it wasn't so hard to bow to her parents when they have been all she knew all her life, especially when she sees Electra defy and get punished, Chrysothemis falter...after all, all she remembers in the past is as much as Orestes— nothing.

[kingbryancroidragon]

I acknowledge Iphianssa and Iphigenia as the same character. My view of later poets treating them as different individuals is they didn't realize they were the same character.

[evancordelia]

I was cursed to think about Clytemnestra too much (alt under cut)