Antaea
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Iliad
Wife of Proetus, who falsely accuses Bellerophon of assaulting her after he refuses her advances.
For Antaea, wife of Proetus, lusted after him, and would have had him lie with her in secret;
Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat
Woman cited for burning with unlawful passion and attempting to seduce a virtuous young man (understood as Bellerophon) away from honor, her failed temptation illustrating his continence, wisdom, and reverent fear.
— For him Antaea burn’d with lawless flame, And strove to tempt him from the paths of fame: