Anaxarete

Iphis and Anaxarete illustration by Virgil Solis

In Greek mythology, Anaxarete (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξαρέτη means 'excellent princess') was a maiden of Cyprus, "a proud princess in the line of Teucer's descendants",[1] who refused the advances of a shepherd named Iphis.

  1. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 14. p. 583, translated by David Raeburn