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	Proetus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, Proetus quarreled continually with his twin brother Acrisius, inventing bucklers in the process, and in the end the realm was partitioned between them.
		Sometimes the madness of the Argive women, and their cure by Bias and Melampus in exchange for a third of the kingdom each, is said to have occurred during the reign of Proetus.
		Proetus, possibly a different Proetus from the above, was the father of Maera.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proetus (389 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 542 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As Proetus refused to accept these terms, the madness of his daughters not only increased, but was communicated to the other Argive women also, so that they murdered their own children and ran about in a state of frenzy.
		During this pursuit, Iphinoe, one of the daughters of Proetus, died, but the two others were cured by Melampus by means of purifications, and were then married to Melampus and Bias.
		When Bellerophontes 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 Bellerophontes refused to comply with her desire, she charged him before Proetus with having made improper proposals to her.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2876.html (891 words)

	Bellerophon, Greek Mythology Link.
		However, once Proetus 1 was in exile, his father-in-law, King Iobates of Lycia (on the southern coast of Asia Minor), restored him to his own land with an army of Lycians, and he occupied Tiryns.
		When Bellerophon was living in the kingdom of Proetus 1, the king's wife Stheneboea (or Antia, as some call her) fell in love with him, and sent him proposals for a meeting; and when he rejected them, she told Proetus 1 that Bellerophon had sent her a vicious proposal.
		Proetus 1 believed her, and gave him a letter to take to Iobates, king of Lycia, in which it was written that he was to kill Bellerophon.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Bellerophon.html (750 words)

	Tiryns, Greek Mythology Link.
		Having become men, Acrisius drove Proetus 1 from, as they say, Argos (for what happens in Tiryns is not very different from what takes place in Argos and Mycenae, these three cities being relatively close to each other, and their history being intertwined).
		Proetus 1 and Stheneboea (for that was the name of his wife), had daughters: Lysippe 2, Iphinoe 1, and Iphianassa 3.
		Proetus and Stheneboea had yet another son Lernus 1, who is the father of Naubolus 3, father of Clytoneus 1, father of Nauplius 2, said to be a descendant of Nauplius 1, father of Palamedes.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Tiryns.html (1038 words)

	Proetus Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Proetus married the daughter of a king of Lycia; the king was named Iobates, or some say Amphianax; Acrisius and Proetus, sons of Abas by Aglaia;
		Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, daughters of Proetus by Stheneboea; Iphinoe died, and Proetus gave the other daughters in marriage to Melampus and Bias; and afterwards Proetus begat a son, Megapenthes;
		Stheneboea, daughter of Aphidas, was married to Proetus;
	www.csulb.edu /~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i208Sources.htm (142 words)

	Proetus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Proetus was a (Click link for more info and facts about mythical) mythical king of (Click link for more info and facts about Tiryns) Tiryns.
		However, Proetus quarreled continually with his twin brother (Click link for more info and facts about Acrisius) Acrisius, inventing (Armor carried on the arm to intercept blows) bucklers in the process, and in the end the realm was partitioned between them.
		Proetus, possibly a different Proetus from the above, was the father of (Click link for more info and facts about Maera) Maera.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/proetus.htm (521 words)

	Argos, Greek Mythology Link.
		Proetus 1 then went to Lycia where his father-in-law was king and, having received an army of Lycians, he returned and occupied Tiryns.
		During the reign of Proetus 1, the king's daughters went mad, and Melampus 1—an excellent seer who understood the language of birds and worms, and the first to devise a cure by means of drugs—healed the daughters of Proetus 1 of their madness, receiving for that the third part of the kingdom of Argos.
		Melampus 1 was son of Amythaon 1 of Pylos, son of Cretheus 1 (the founder of Iolcus), son of Thessalian Aeolus 1, son of Hellen 1 (eponym of the Hellenes), son either of Deucalion 1 (the man who survived The Flood), or of Zeus.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Argos.html (1492 words)

	Bellerophon -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Anteia (or Stheneboea), wife of Proetus, the king of Argos, loved him; when her overtures were rejected, she falsely accused him to her husband.
		Proetus then sent Bellerophon to Iobates, the king of Lycia, with a message that he was to be slain.
		Proetus' daughters were driven mad either because they insulted the goddess Hera or because they would not accept the new rites of Dionysus.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9015270?tocId=9015270 (680 words)

	Apollodorus
		And Acrisius gained the mastery and drove Proetus from Argos; and Proetus went to Lycia to the court of Iobates or, as some say, of Amphianax, and married his daughter, whom Homer calls Antia, but the tragic poets call her Stheneboea.
		When Proetus refused to pay so high a fee for the cure, the maidens raved more than ever, and besides that, the other women raved with them; for they also abandoned their houses, destroyed their own children, and flocked to the desert.
		However, she was seduced, as some say, by Proetus, whence arose the quarrel between them; but some say that Zeus had intercourse with her in the shape of a stream of gold which poured through the roof into Danae's lap.
	www.wsu.edu /~hughesc/apollodorus_perseus.html (1468 words)

	The Iliad by Homer: Chapter 6 (continued) - The Literature Page
		But Proetus devised his ruin, and being stronger than he, drove him from the land of the Argives, over which Jove had made him ruler.
		For Antea, wife of Proetus, lusted after him, and would have had him lie with her in secret; but Bellerophon was an honourable man and would not, so she told lies about him to Proteus.
		'Proetus,' said she, 'kill Bellerophon or die, for he would have had converse with me against my will.' The king was angered, but shrank from killing Bellerophon, so he sent him to Lycia with lying letters of introduction, written on a folded tablet, and containing much ill against the bearer.
	www.literaturepage.com /read.php?titleid=theiliad&abspage=84&reset=yes (452 words)

	BELLEROPHON - LoveToKnow Article on BELLEROPHON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Having slain by accident the Corinthian hero Bellerus (or, according to others, his own brother) he fled to Tiryns, where his kinsman Proetus, king of Argos, received him hospitably anc~ purged him of his guilt.
		But Anteia (or Sthcneboea), wife of Proetus, became enamoured of Bellerophon, and, when he refusbd her advances, charged him with an attempt upon her virtue.
		Proetus thereupon sent him to Iobates, his wifes father, king of Lycia, with a letter or sealed tablet, in which were instructions, apparently given by means of signs, to take the life of the bearer.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BELLEROPHON.htm (595 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1013 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The daughters of Proetus, Iphinoe, Lysippe and Iphianassa, were seized with madness, either because they opposed the worship of Dionysus (Diod.
		Proetus refused the proposal i but when the madness continued, and also seized the other Argive women, messengers came to Melampus to request his aid ; but he now demanded two-thirds of the kingdom, one for himself, and the other for his brother.
		Iphinoe died during the pursuit, but the surviving women were cured by purifications in a well, Anigrus, or in a temple of Artemis near Lusi, or in the town of Sicyon itself; and Melampus and Bias married the two daughters of Proetus.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2121.html (939 words)

	proetus information,proteus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Greek mythology, proetus is a lesser sea-god,the son of Poseidon or Oceanus and a Naiad, and the herdsman of Poseidon's seals.
		He learned from proetus' daughter that if he could capture her father he could force him to revealwhich of the gods he had offended, and hos he could propitiate them and return home.
		Aristeus did so, and proetus eventually gave up and toldhim to sacrifice 12 animals to the gods, leave the corpses in the place of sacrifice, and return three days later.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /proetus.html (406 words)

	Perseus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acrisius was there as he had fled upon hearing that Perseus was coming home, and Perseus accidentally struck him with his diskus, fulfilling the oracle.
		Too shamed to return to Argos he then gave the kingdom to Megapenthes son of Proetus (Acrisius' brother) and took over Megapenthes' kingdom of Tyrins.
		One legend goes that Perseus turned Atlas the Titan into Atlas the mountain using the head of Medusa when he refused to give Perseus shelter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perseus_(mythology) (859 words)

	Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Proetus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When his wife falsely accused Bellerophon of making amorous advances, Proetus sent the hero to King Iobates of Lycia with sealed instructions that he be put to death on arrival.
		On another occasion, the daughters of Proetus were driven mad by Hera and roamed the countryside in a frenzy thinking they were cows.
		Bellerophon slaying the Chimaera (instead of dying himself as Proetus intended).
	www.mythweb.com /encyc/entries/proetus.html (92 words)

	Pegasus was the winged horse.
		He brought letters from Proetus, the son-in-law of Iobates, recommending Bellerophon in the warmest terms as an unconquerable hero, but added at the close a request to his father-in-law to put him to death.
		The reason was that Proetus was jealous of him, suspecting that his wife Antea looked with too much admiration on the young warrior.
		From this instance of Bellerophon being unconsciously the bearer of his own death warrant, the expression "Bellerophontic letters" arose, to describe any species of communication which a person is made the bearer of, containing matter prejudicial to himself.
	waltm.net /pegasus.htm (691 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Bellerophon @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He became a suppliant at the court of King Proetus of Argos, whose wife Anteia falsely accused him of trying to seduce her.
		Proetus sent him to Iobates, king of Lycia, with a sealed message requesting the death of its bearer.
		Iobates gave Bellerophon the seemingly impossible task of killing the Chimera, a beast that was part lion, part goat, part dragon.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Bellerop&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (229 words)

	Bellerophon, Greece, Greek mythology
		Bellerophon had sought protection with the king of Argos, Proetus, and his wife Antea or Stheneboea.
		The queen fell in love with the young man, but when he refused her, she told Proetus that he had tried to seduce her and that he must die for this.
		Proetus did not want to kill his protegee so he sent Bellerophon to his father-in-law Iobates In Lycia with a letter to kill the messenger.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/bellerophon.htm (198 words)

	Argos
		From another standpoint, Plato, in the Menexenus, has Aspasia in her funeral oration oppose the Athenians that are pure Greeks to "the Pelopides, Cadmians, Ægyptians and Danaans [that is, the offspring of Pelops, Cadmus, Ægyptus and Danaus] and all others who are barbarians by nature and Greeks by law" (Menexenus, 245d).
		They fought for the kingship of Argos after the death of their father, and Acrisius got Argos, while Proetus settled in nearby Tirynthus, fortified for him by the Cyclops.
		Melampous married Iphianassa, one of Proetus' daughters he had cured, while Bias married the other, Lysippe, though he had been married earlier to Pero, the daughter of his uncle Neleus, king of Pylos, and sister of Nestor, with whom he had had several children.
	www.plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/argos.htm (3684 words)

	Royal Houses of Argolis
		The myth of the famous war between Argos and Thebes (Seven Against Thebes) was a subject of many tales, where seven Argive chieftains went to restore Polyneices to the kingdom in Thebes, but only to fail in defeat; all the leaders died except one.
		His wife Aglaea, daughter of Mantineus, bore him twins, Acrisius (Acrisios) and Proëtus (Proetus or Proitos), who even fought one another even in her womb.
		Proëtus (Proetus or Proitos) was king of Tiryns when he received the hero Bellerophon as a guest and suppliant.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/argolis.html (3340 words)

	Perseus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since Acrisius now refused to give up the throne at the end of his term, Proetus fled to the court of Iobates, King of Lycia, whose daughter Stheneboea, or Antheia, he married; returning presently at the head of a Lycian army to support his claims to the succession.
		Seven gigantic Cyclopes, called Gasterocheires, because they earned their living as masons, accompanied Proetus from Lycia, and fortified Tiryns with massive walls, using blocks of stone so large that a mule team could not have stirred the least of them.
		When Acrisius learned of Danae's condition, he would not believe that Zeus was the father, and suspected his brother Proetus of having renewed his intimacy with her; but, not daring to kill his own daughter, locked her and the infant Perseus in a wooden ark, which he cast into the sea.
	www.cycladesbest.org /perseus/perseus.htm (1682 words)

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		But Proetus devised his ruin, and being stronger than he, drove him from the district [dêmos] of the Argives, over which Zeus had made him ruler.
		For Antaea, wife of Proetus, lusted after him, and would have had him lie with her in secret; but Bellerophon was an honorable man and would not, so she told lies about him to Proetus.
		‘Proetus,’ said she, ‘kill Bellerophon or die, for he would have had converse with me against my will.’ The king was angered, but shrank from killing Bellerophon, so he sent him to Lycia bearing baneful signs [sêmata], inside a folded tablet and containing much ill against the bearer.
	faculty.cua.edu /gitelman/homer.htm (757 words)

	Classical Myth: Texts: Bacchylides
		All-powerful Hera drove these daughters in fear from the lovely halls [45] of Proetus; she yoked their minds to a violent maddening compulsion.
		For it was now the tenth year since the heroes with their bronze shields, fearless in battle, [60] had left Argos, the city loved by the gods, and lived in Tiryns with their much envied king, because an insurmountable quarrel [65] had arisen, from a slight beginning, between the brothers Proetus and Acrisius.
		It was from Tiryns that the dark-haired unsubdued daughters of Proetus rushed in their flight.
	web.uvic.ca /grs/bowman/myth/texts/bacchylides.html (585 words)

	MYTH MAN'S BELLEROPHON PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		King Proetus was happy to receive the handsome youth but, as luck would have it, the king's young wife, Anteia (sometimes called Stheneboea), fell in love with Bellerophon the instant she laid eyes on him.
		Besides, he was a guest in the house of Proetus and it would be most dishonorable to thus deceive his gracious host, the king.
		King Proetus summoned Bellerophon and told him that he was sending him to Lycia, a kingdom ruled by his father in law, King Iobates, who was his wife Anteia's father.
	www.thanasis.com /modern/belle.htm (1772 words)

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