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Story of a Scythian princess
Idaea 2, daughter of King Dardanus 3 of Scythia, was the second wife of Phineus 2, the blind king and seer from Salmydessus in Thrace who received the ARGONAUTS. Idaea 2 falsely accused the sons of Phineus 2 by his former wife Cleopatra 5 of corrupting her virtue. For this charge—trying to rape their mother-in-law—the children of Phineus 2 (Plexippus 2 and Pandion 3) were shut within a burial vault where they were continually whipped. At the time, Heracles 1, who was sailing with the Boreades (Calais and Zetes), arrived to Thrace. Since the Boreades were the brothers of Cleopatra 5 they demanded that both their sister and the falsely accused youths were released. An armed conflict broke out, during which Phineus 2 was killed by Heracles 1. The released youths wished then to put Idaea 2 to death under torture, but Heracles 1 persuaded them to send her to Scythia for punishment, and there the Scythians condemned her to death.