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Proetus, by virtue of his kingship, cleansed Bellerophon of his crime. But when the wife of king Proetus – whose name was either Anteia [ 31 ] or Stheneboea , [ 32 ] tried to make advances on him, he rejected her, causing her to accuse Bellerophon of attempting to make advances on her instead. [ 33 ]
When Bellerophon came to Proetus to be purified of a murder which he had committed, the wife of Proetus fell in love with him, and invited him to come to her: but, as Bellerophon refused to comply with her desire, she charged him before Proetus with having made improper proposals to her. Proetus then sent Bellerophon to Iobates in Lycia, with a ...
She was the consort of Proetus, joint-king in the Argolid with Acrisius, having his seat at Tiryns. According to early sources, Stheneboea was the daughter of Aphidas and brother of Aleus. [2] Homer and other early writers gave the name of the consort of Proetus as Antea, Antaea, or Anteia. [3]
Proetus, king of Argos and Tiryns, son of Abas and twin brother of Acrisius. [1] Proetus, a prince of Corinth as the son of Prince Thersander, son of King Sisyphus. He was the father of Maera who died a maiden. [2] Scholiasts on the Odyssey confound him with the Argive Proetus. [3] Proetus of Thebes, eponym of the Proetid Gates, [4] and father ...
Proetus was the son-in-law of Iobates, and sent Bellerophon to him with a sealed message that asked him to kill Bellerophon. Lycia at the time was in the middle of a horrific plague and Iobates didn't want to strain the population with a war, which would surely result if he murdered Bellerophon. Instead, he sent him to kill the Chimera.
Proetus, a king of Argos and Tiryns; Pylades, a king of Phocis and friend of Orestes; Rhadamanthys, a king of Crete; after his death, he became a judge of the dead in the Underworld; Rhesus, a king of Thrace who sided with Troy in the Trojan War; Sarpedon, a king of Lycia and son of Zeus who fought on the side of Troy during the Trojan War
Distressed by the destruction of his lands, Iobates, the king of Lycia, ordered a young warrior named Bellerophon to slay her. This was also a favor to a neighboring king, Proetus, who wanted Bellerophon dead because his wife accused Bellerophon of rape and he assumed that the warrior would perish in the attempt to kill the beast.
The Bellerophon Mosaic is a 2nd century AD ancient Roman mosaic, discovered at Autun in 1830 and now in the musée Rolin. It shows Bellerophon mounted on Pegasus killing the Chimera . [ 1 ]