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 Jerrold (1898–1977), British novelist
  • Ianthe Elizabeth Brautigan (born 1960), American writer, daughter of Richard Brautigan
  • Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal
  • 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

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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, 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

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

  • 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.