Telephassa

Telephassa
Telephassa
Queen of Phoenicia
Member of the Phoenician Royal Family
Other names	Telephe, Argiope
Abode	Phoenicia
Genealogy
Parents	(a) Nilus and Nephele; (b) Epimedusa
Siblings	-
Consort	(1) Agenor; (2,3) Phoenix
Offspring	(1) Europa, Cilix, Cadmus, Thasus and Phoenix; (2) Europa, Cadmus and Thasus; (3) Europa, Peirus, Phoenice and Astypale

Telephassa (/ˌtɛlɪˈfæsə/; Ancient Greek: Τηλέφασσα, Tēléphassa, "far-shining"), also spelled Telephaassa (/ˌtɛlɪfiˈæsə/; Τηλεφάασσα) and Telephe^[1] (/ˈtɛlɪfiː/; Τηλέφη), is a lunar epithet in Greek mythology that is sometimes substituted for Argiope the wife of Agenor, according to his name a "leader of men"^[2] in Phoenicia, and mother of Cadmus.^[3]^[4]

^ Scholiast on Euripides, Ion 5
^ Kerenyi, The Heroes of the Greeks 1959:27.
^ "She bore the lunar name Telephassa or Telephae, 'she who illuminates afar', or Argiope 'she of the white face'", Karl Kerenyi notes in The Heroes of the Greeks 1959:27.
^ Other mythic figures were also named Argiope.