Iphis
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Suppliants
Aged king, father of Evadne, who comes to retrieve his son's remains and witnesses his daughter's suicide.
the aged Iphis, thy father, draweth nigh to hear thy startling scheme, which yet he knows not and will grieve to learn.
Them too I hate, whoso desire to lengthen out the span of life, seeking to turn the tide of death aside by philtres, drugs, and magic spells,—folk that death should take away to leave the young their place, when they no more can benefit the world.
Iphis: