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.