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 Jerrold (1898–1977), British novelist
• Ianthe Thomas (1951–2002), American children's author
• 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

Fictional characters

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

Biology

• Ianthe, a genus of isopods formerly known as Tole
• 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 uses

• Lake Ianthe, a lake on the West Coast of New Zealand 's South Island
• 98 Ianthe, a main belt asteroid
• Ianthe, a fabric and leatherwork pattern owned by Liberty of London Co.