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Anteia

Ἄντεια

(Ἄντεια), a daughter of the Lycian king Iobates, and wife of Proetus of Argos, by whom she became the mother of Maera. (Apollod. 2.2.1; Hom. Il. 6.160; Eustath, ad Hom. p. 1688.) The Greek tragedians call the wife of Proetus Stheneboea. Respecting her love for Bellerophontes, see BELLEROPHON.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.