Iobates - Iobates

…After accidentally killing someone, he fled to Argos, where he was cleansed by King Proitos, but the queen fell in love with him and asked him to fulfill her wish. When he refused, she accused him of having fallen in love with her instead. The king sent him to her father, King Iobatēs of Lycia in Asia Minor, with a letter instructing him to kill the bearer of the letter. The king ordered him to kill the monster Chimera, but Bellerophon not only shot it down with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, but also succeeded in the next difficult task of conquering the Solymians and Amazons, so he gave him the princess as his wife and made him the heir to the kingdom. …

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…誤って人を殺したためアルゴスに逃れた彼は，同地の王プロイトスProitosから罪を潔（きよ）められたが，王妃が彼に恋し，想いを遂げんものと言い寄った。しかしそれを拒まれると，彼女は逆に彼が邪恋を寄せたと夫に訴えたため，王は本状持参の者を殺すようにとしたためた手紙を持たせて，彼を王妃の父，小アジアのリュキア王イオバテスIobatēsのもとへ赴かせた。そこでリュキア王は彼に怪獣キマイラ退治を命じたが，ベレロフォンは有翼の神馬ペガソスの助けを得て怪獣を射殺したばかりか，次に命じられたソリュモイ人，アマゾン族の征伐などの難業をも首尾よくなし遂げたので，王女を妻に与えられ，王国の継承者とされた。…

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