As in the Biblical account of Potiphar's wife, she testified falsely against Bellerophon, accusing him of advances and even attempted rape on her husband, who sent him on a deadly mission to Iobates.
Divine judgement was added to this tragic end, since Stheneboea's three daughters were overcome with madness, inflicted by either Hera or Dionysus, and took to ranging over the mountains as maenads, assaulting travelers.
Robert Graves observes that Anteia's attempted seduction of Bellerophon has several Greek parallels and draws attention to Biadice's love for Phrixus, which "recalls Potiphar's wife's love for Joseph, a companion myth from Canaan"[4] as well as Cretheis and Peleus, Phaedra and Hippolytus or Philonome and Tenes.
[6] "Such poisonous triangular relationships," Jeffrey A White has observed in this context,[7] "with negligible variations of detail and conclusion (the common ingredients being a failed seductress, an innocent youth and a deceived father-figure), can be multiplied easily from Greek myth,[8] as from Hebrew.
[9] In archaic Greece cattle were a source of wealth[10] and a demonstration of social pre-eminence; they also signified the numinous presence of Hera.