< Bellerophontes, son of Glaucus >

1 Origin

Bellerophontes (or Hipponus, Bellerophon) was born in 1260 BC at Isthmus in Corinth.

Bellerophontes' father was Glaucus, son of Sisyphus. [Tzetzes.7.810, Paus.2.4.3, Apo.1.9.3, Home.6.144]

Bellerophontes' mother was Eurynome (or Eurymede), daughter of Nisus. [Apo.1.9.3, Hesiod.CW.F7]

2 Family

Bellerophontes married Philonoe, daughter of Iobates. [Apo.2.3.2, Tzetzes.7.850]

Nisus, father of Eurynome, mother of Bellerophontes, was the brother of Lycus, father of Iobates. [Tzetzes.7.810, Paus.2.4.3, Apo.1.9.3, Home.6.144]

So Philonoe was a second cousin of Bellerophontes.

Bellerophontes and Philonoe had a son, Peisander (or Isander). [Home.6.191, Tzetzes.7.850]

Bellerophontes and Philonoe had a son, Hippolochus. [Home.6.191, Tzetzes.7.850]

Bellerophontes and Philonoe had a daughter, Deidameia. [Apo.3.1.1, Home.6.191, Tzetzes.7.850, Diod.5.79.3]

3 Others

In 1241 BC, Bellerophontes moved from Isthmus to Lycia and married Philonoe, daughter of Iobates. [Apo.2.3.2, Tzetzes.7.850]

Iobates is thought to have summoned Bellerophontes to fight against the surrounding foreign tribes (Solymi). [Strabo.12.8.5]

Iobates is presumed to be the son of Lycus, son of Pandion, who moved from Athens to Lycia. [Herod.1.173]

Bellerophontes was the son of Eurynome, daughter of Nisus, brother of Iobates' father Lycus.

In 1238 BC, Bellerophontes led an expedition to fight the Amazons who had invaded the Troad. [Home.Il.6.191, Strabo.12.8.6]

Lycia became a vassal state of the Hittites, and Bellerophontes appears to have been ordered by the Hittites to march to the aid of Wilusa (Troy).