Iobates

Family: Lycia · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.2

Life events

• Proetus sends Bellerophon to Iobates with a letter ordering his death.(Apollodorus, Library 2.3)
  • With: Proetus Bellerophon
  • “Proetus believed her, and gave him a letter to take to Iobates, in which it was written that he was to kill Bellerophon.”
• Iobates orders Bellerophon to fight the Chimera, expecting the beast to kill him.(Apollodorus, Library 2.3)
  • With: Bellerophon
  • “Having read the letter, Iobates ordered him to kill the Chimera, believing that he would be destroyed by the beast”
• Bellerophon defeats the Solymi and Amazons and survives an ambush by Iobates’s chosen warriors.(Apollodorus, Library 2.3)
  • With: Bellerophon
  • “After that contest Iobates ordered him to fight the Solymi, and when he had finished that task also, he commanded him to combat the Amazons. And when he had killed them also, he picked out the reputed bravest of the Lycians and bade them lay an ambush and slay him. But when Bellerophon had killed them also to a man”
• Impressed by Bellerophon’s prowess, Iobates reveals the letter and asks him to remain.(Apollodorus, Library 2.3)
  • With: Bellerophon
  • “Iobates, in admiration of his prowess, showed him the letter and begged him to stay with him”
• Iobates gives Philonoe to Bellerophon and bequeaths him the kingdom.(Apollodorus, Library 2.3)
  • With: Bellerophon Philonoe
  • “moreover he gave him his daughter Philonoe, and dying bequeathed to him the kingdom.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.2

• child: Stheneboea “Proetus went to Lycia to the court of Iobates or, as some say, of Amphianax, and married his daughter”
• with Proetus (Iobates is the most immediate antecedent of the named in-law.) “His in-law restored him to his own land with an army of Lycians”

Apollodorus, Library 2.3

• with Bellerophon (Iobates ordered Bellerophon to undertake a deadly task.) “Having read the letter, Iobates ordered him to kill the Chimera, believing that he would be destroyed by the beast, for it was more than a match for many, let alone one; it had the fore part of a lion, the tail of a dragon, and its third head, the middle one, was that of a goat, through which it belched fire.”
• child: Philonoe “But when Bellerophon had killed them also to a man, Iobates, in admiration of his prowess, showed him the letter and begged him to stay with him; moreover he gave him his daughter Philonoe, and dying bequeathed to him the kingdom.”
• protégé: Bellerophon (Iobates offered Bellerophon residence, his daughter, and his kingdom.) “But when Bellerophon had killed them also to a man, Iobates, in admiration of his prowess, showed him the letter and begged him to stay with him; moreover he gave him his daughter Philonoe, and dying bequeathed to him the kingdom.”

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