Stheneboea

Daughter of Iobates of Lycia, wife of Proetus of Tiryns. Called Anteia in Homer (*Il.* 6.160) and Stheneboea in the later tradition recoverable through the fragments of Euripides's lost *Stheneboea* (ed. Collard-Cropp 2008). She desired Bellerophon when he came to Tiryns as a suppliant and was rebuffed; she then told her husband that the guest had tried to force her, triggering the Bellerophontic-letter sequence (Hom. *Il.* 6.160–170). In the Euripidean version she later kills herself when Bellerophon returns in triumph; in the Homeric version her later fate is not specified.

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