Anteia (mythology)

Anteia (since the Attic tragedies she was also often called Steneboia, sometimes also called Stenoboia) is the wife of Proitos of Tiryns . She is the daughter of Iobates of Lycia . She fell in love with the young Bellerophon when he was a guest with her and her husband, but was rejected by him. Her love turned to hate and she accused Bellerophon of chasing after her. He was then expelled from court and sent to Iobates with a letter demanding his murder. Anteia and her husband had three daughters, Iphinoe , Lysippe and Iphianassa , who went mad and were cured by Melampus .

literature

• Richard Engelmann : Anteia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 364 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Konrad Wernicke : Anteia 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, col. 2348.

• Karl Buslepp : Stheneboia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, Col. 1506-1521 ( digitized version ).

• Karl Kerényi : The Mythology of the Greeks . Vol. II: The Heroes Stories . dtv, Munich 1984, p. 72. ISBN 3-423-01346-X

Web links

• Gustav Schwab: Bellerophontes in the Gutenberg project
• Homer, Ilias VI, 159ff in the Gutenberg project
• Bellerophontes in the Theoi Project