Early years Iphimedeia also fell in love with Poseidon, god of the sea, and would often come to the sea shore where she poured the sea water in her lap, until the god came and answered her feelings (cf. the story of
Tyro).
Thracian abduction Iphimedia's daughter Pancratis was renowned for her beauty. When the two participated in the celebration of the
orgies of
Dionysus near Drius in
Achaea Phthiotis, they were carried off by the companions of the
Thracian king
Butes and brought to the island of Strongyle (later
Naxos) where Pancratis was given in marriage to the new king
Agassamenus and Iphimedia to a friend and lieutenant of his. Two other leaders,
Sicelus and
Hecetorus, had fought over Pancratis and killed each other (or else they were
Scellis and Agassamenus themselves). Soon after, Otus and Ephialtes, sent by Aloeus, defeated the Thracians and rescued their mother and sister but Pancratis died not much later.
Connection with Hekate Iphimedeia was one of the heroines whose spirits
Odysseus encountered at the entrance of the
Underworld. According to Pietro Scarpi, Iphimedeia should be placed in the chthonic realm as a double of
Hekate. ==Ancient cults==