Stheneboea

Stheneboea

In Greek mythology Stheneboea or Stheneboia (the "strong cow" or "strong through cattle") was the daughter of Iobates, king in Lycia, ["Iliad" vi.160, as "Anteia".] and consort of Proetus, joint-king in the Argolid with Acrisius, having his seat at Tiryns; she took a fancy to Bellerophon but was repulsed. As in the myth of Potiphar's wife, she testified falsely against Bellerophon, accusing him of advances and even attempted rape to her husband, who sent him on a deadly mission to Iobates. Bellerophon later returned to Tiryns and punished Stheneboea.

Her three daughters were afflicted with madness, whether by Hera or by Dionysus, and ranged the mountains as maenads, assaulting travellers.

theneboea and Potiphar's wife

An alternative name for the consort of Proetus is Antea or Anteia. Robert Graves observes that Anteia's attempted seduction of Bellerophon has several Greek parallels and draws attention to Biadice's love for Phrixus, which "recalls Potiphar's wife's love for Joseph, a companion myth from Canaan" [Graves, "The Greek Myths" (1955; 1960) "sub" 70.2 "Athamas". ] as well as Cretheis and Peleus, Phaedra and Hippolytus or Philonome and Tenes. Graves also notes the parallel in the Egyptian "Tale of the Two Brothers", [Graves 1960:75.1. Graves note "the provenience of the myth is uncertain."] from about the end of the second millennium. [In J.B. Pritchard, ed., "Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament" (Princeton: Princeton University Press) 1955:23-25. The two brothers are Anubis and his wife, and Anubis' younger brother Bata, who is rescued from Anubis' misplaced vengeance by the intervention of Re-Herakti.] "Such poisonous triangular relationships," Jeffrey A White has observed in this context, [Jeffrey A. White, "Bellerophon in the 'Land of Nod': Some Notes on Iliad 6.153-211" "The American Journal of Philology" 103.2 (Summer 1982:119-127) p. 123] "with negligible variations of detail and conclusion (the common ingredients being a failed seductress, an innocent youth and a deceived father-figure), can be multiplied easily from Greek myth, [White notes further triangles from M. Simpson, "Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: the Library of Apollodorus" (Amherst) 1976, Acastus-Peleus-Astydamia ("Bibliotheke" 3.13.3); Amyntor-Phoenix-concubine ("Bib." 3.13.8); Paneus-Plexippus and Pandion-Idaea ("Bib. 3.15.3); Cycnus-Tenes-Philonome ("Epitome" 3.24; Cretheus and Athamus-Phrixus-Demodice (Hyginus, Astronomia", 2.20); and Theseus-Hippolytus-Phaedra ("Epitome" 1.18-19).] as from Hebrew. That the Bellerophon-Proetus-Anteia relationship recalls quite vividly the Joseph-Potiphar-Potiphar's wife episode in Gen. 39, is well known."

theneboea, "cattle queen"

Stheneboea is one of a number of female figures named for their role as "cattle queens"; they include Phereboia ("bringing in cattle"), and Polyboia ("worth much cattle"). [Steven H. Lonsdale, "Attitudes towards animals in ancient Greece" "Greece & Rome", 2nd Series 26.2 (October 1979), pp. 146-159; John Heath, "The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato", p. 190 and note 67.] In archaic Greece cattle were a source of wealth ["Iliad" xxiii.700-05; see also the Greek region of Euboia ("rich in cattle").] and a demonstration of social pre-eminence; they also signified the numinous presence of Hera. Cattle-queens, betokening the command of a large bride-price, are as familiar in Gaelic mythology as they are in Greek myth.

Notes

References

Euripides' tragedies "Stheneboia" and "Bellerophon" are both lost.
*Hesiod, "Catalogue of women"
*Pseudo-Apollodorus, "Bibliotheke" ii.4.1.
*Diodorus Siculus, iv.68.
*Heroic Patterns, "Heroes of Greek Mythology" 13.

External links

* [http://www.theoi.com/Heros/Bellerophontes.html Theoi Project - Bellerophontes]


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