Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Stheneboea.
The gallery
Bellerophon and Stheneboea (Antioch mosaic)
Unknown (Roman), c. 2nd–3rd century AD
Antioch Four Seasons mosaic: Stheneboea (Anteia) with Bellerophon — the queen whose false accusation sends the hero to Lycia, preserved in Roman pavement at Antakya.
Bellerophon and Stheneboea (mosaic detail)
Unknown (Roman), c. 2nd–3rd century AD
A closer view of the same Antioch panel — Stheneboea and the hero who rejected her, the Proetid court intrigue as late-antique floor myth.
In play
Iliad
Homer
Book VI — Homer's Anteia (Stheneboea) lusts for Bellerophon; rejected, she turns Proetus against him with a lying letter.
Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus names Stheneboea as Proetus' wife whose false charge launches Bellerophon toward the Chimera.
Stheneboea
Wife of Proetus — Homer's Anteia — whose rejected desire and forged letter send Bellerophon to Lycia.