Iobates

Iobates

[Bellerophon.]

Iobătes

(Ἰοβάτης). A king of Lycia, father of Anteia, and son-in-law of Proetus, king of Tiryns, by whom he was commissioned to kill Bellerophon (q.v.).

Iobates Iobates, king of Lycia

• receives Proetus from Argos: Apollod. 2.1.5
• restores him to his own land: Apollod. 2.1.5, Apollod. 2.2.1
• sends Bellerophon against the Chimera: Apollod. 2.3.1
• orders him to fight the Solymi and Amazons: Apollod. 2.3.2
• gives him his daughter Philonoe to wife and bequeaths to him the kingdom: Apollod. 2.3.2