Proetus (son of Abas)
In
Family
Proetus' father was
By his wife, Antea
Relation | Name | Sources | ||||||||||
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Homer | Hesiod | Bacchylides | Ovid | Apollodorus | Hyginus | Pausanias | Aelian | Servius | Fulgentius | Gk. Anthology | ||
Parentage | Abas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
Abas and Aglaia | ✓ | |||||||||||
Sibling | Acrisius | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Wife | Antia or | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Stheneboea | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
Children | Lysippe | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Iphinoe | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
Iphianassa | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
Megapenthes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
Elege | ✓ | |||||||||||
Celane | ✓ | |||||||||||
Hipponoe | ✓ | |||||||||||
Cyrianassa | ✓ |
Mythology
Rivalry of twins
Proetus and Acrisius quarreled continually ever since they still were in the womb that they even carried on with the rivalry into their adult years, inventing shields or
Bellerophon
When Bellerophon 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 Bellerophon refused to comply with her desire, she charged him before Proetus with having made improper proposals to her. Proetus then sent Bellerophon to Iobates in Lycia, with a letter in which Iobates was desired to murder Bellerophon. Iobates challenged Bellerophon to several seemingly impossible tasks which Bellerophon did complete.[14][15][16]
Madness of the Proetides
When Proetus' daughters arrived at the age of maturity, they were stricken with madness, the cause of which is differently stated by different authors; some say that it was a punishment inflicted upon them by
Other tales
In one account, Proetus had yet another daughter, Nyctaea, who fled from her own father's attempts of violation and was changed by Athena into an owl;[28] her story is a variant for that of Nyctimene.
According to Ovid, Proetus ended up changed into stone by Perseus, the grandson of Acrisius (who had eventually got expelled by Proetus), upon being made by him to see the head of Medusa.[29] Later Proetus' son, Megapenthes, exchanged kingdoms with Perseus.[30][31]
Argive genealogy
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Notes
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.2.1
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.25.5
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4
- ^ a b Scholia called in Homer, Iliad 6.160
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 57
- ^ 6.48
- ^ Aelian, Varia Historia 3.42
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.25.7
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.1
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.2.1
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.16.2
- ^ Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 953
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.16.4
- ^ Homer, Iliad 6.155 ff. with scholia
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.3.1
- Tzetzes on Lycophron, 17; Chiliades, 8.810
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.68.4
- ^ Herodotus, The Histories 9.34
- ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Nemean Ode 9.30
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.2.2
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.7.8 & 2.12.2
- ^ Strabo, Geographica 8
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.325
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.18.8
- ^ Pindar, Pythian Odes 3.96
- ^ "sikyon.com – 2017". sikyon.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.18.4
- ^ Lactantius Placidus on Statius' Thebaid, 3.507
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.238 ff.
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.4
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.16.3
References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Claudius Aelianus, Varia Historia translated by Thomas Stanley (d.1700) edition of 1665. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Claudius Aelianus, Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, Vol 2. Rudolf Hercher. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1866. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1–2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- John Tzetzes, Book of Histories, Book VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com
- Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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