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Headword:
*sqene/boia
Adler number: sigma,515
Translated headword: Stheneboia, Stheneboea
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The wife of Proetus. She loved Bellerophon and she did not win him, on account of his temperance, so she slandered him to Proetus, [saying] that he wanted to commit adultery with her. And Proetus was enraged and sent him [Bellerophon] to Iobates, the father of Stheneboia,[1] so that Iobates might kill him: for Proetus did not want to kill him, since he had raised him as his own son. Iobates perceived that the accusation against him was a lie, and he spared Bellerophon. After the reign of Proetus, Acrisius ruled.[2]
The death of Stheneboia "became notorious". Meaning well-known.[3]
Greek Original:*sqene/boia: *proi/tou gunh/. au(/th filh/sasa to\n *bellerofo/nthn kai\ mh\ e)pituxou=sa dia\ th\n tou/tou swfrosu/nhn tou)nanti/on die/balen au)to\n tw=| *proi/tw|, w(s boulo/menon au)th\n moixeu=sai. kai\ a)ganakth/sas o( *proi=tos e)/pemyen au)to\n tw=| *)ioba/th|, tw=| patri\ th=s *sqeneboi/as, i(/na e)kei=nos au)to\n foneu/sh|: o( ga\r *proi=tos a)nelei=n au)to\n ou)k h)boulh/qh, e)peidh\ e)n ta/cei te/knou a)neqre/yato au)to/n. ai)sqo/menos de\ o( *)ioba/ths o(/ti yeudh/s e)stin h( kat' au)tou= kathgori/a, e)fei/sato tou= *bellerofo/ntou. meta\ de\ th\n basilei/an tou= *proi/tou *)akri/sios e)basi/leuse. qa/natos *sqeneboi/as a)na/pustos e)ge/neto. a)nti\ tou= fanero/s.
Notes:
This is a version of the "Potiphar's wife" tale, in which a married woman tries to seduce a young man and upon being rejected tells her husband that he tried to seduce her. Another example in the Suda is the story of Atalanta: see
alpha 4309.
[1] On Iobates, see
iota 400. On Proetus (Proitos), see OCD4 s.v.,
mu 307, and
chi 66. On Bellerophon, see OCD4 s.v. and
beta 231.
[2] John of
Antioch fr.21 FHG, now fr.38 Roberto (76-77). See also John Malalas
Chronographia IV.13 Thurn (59-60); cf. Jeffreys et al. (40-41). On the brother of Proetus, Acrisius, see OCD4 s.v. and
alpha 986.
[3]
Nicolaus of Damascus FGrH 90 F9, quoted from
alpha 2041. (The phrase is actually used of her love, not her death.)
U. Roberto, ed., Ioannis Antiocheni Fragmenta ex Historia chronica, (Berlin 2005)
J. Thurn, ed., Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, (Berlin 2000)
E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, and R. Scott, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, (Leiden 1986)
Keywords: biography; children; chronology; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; mythology; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 1 December 2000@12:38:31.
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