Proetus
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Iliad
King of Argos who, deceived by his wife Antaea, drives Bellerophon out and sends him to Lycia bearing a message intended to secure his death.
But Proetus devised his ruin, and being stronger than he, drove him from the district [ dêmos] of the Argives, over which Zeus had made him ruler.
Nemean
Legendary king whose name is attached to the horse-breeding city credited with many athletic victories.
For this horse-breeding city of Proetus has flourished with so many victories in the glens of Corinth, and four times from the men of Cleonae.