Laudator Temporis Acti

Apollodorus, Library 3.15.3 (tr. James G. Frazer):

Cleopatra was married to Phineus, who had by her two sons, Plexippus and Pandion. When he had these sons by Cleopatra, he married Idaea, daughter of Dardanus. She falsely accused her stepsons to Phineus of corrupting her virtue, and Phineus, believing her, blinded them both.

Κλεοπάτραν δὲ ἔγημε Φινεύς, ᾧ γίνονται παῖδες ἐξ αὐτῆς Πλήξιππος καὶ Πανδίων. ἔχων δὲ τούτους ἐκ Κλεοπάτρας παῖδας Ἰδαίαν ἐγάμει τὴν Δαρδάνου. κἀκείνη τῶν προγόνων πρὸς Φινέα φθορὰν καταψεύδεται, καὶ πιστεύσας Φινεὺς ἀμφοτέρους τυφλοῖ.

φθορὰν = rape (Liddell-Scott-Jones, s.v. φθορά, sense b.4).

For other examples of such false accusations see Louis H. Feldman, "Josephus' Portrait of Joseph (Continuation)," Revue Biblique 99.3 (July 1992) 504-528 (at 523):

Hadas⁴⁰ has noted the similarity between Josephus' account of Potiphar's wife's initiative in approaching Joseph and Phaedra's initiative, in the earlier version of Euripides' Hippolytus, in soliciting Hippolytus. Apparently, the Phaedra-Hippolytus theme was very popular, as we can gather from the remark of Pausanias (1.22.1) that "everybody, even a foreigner who has learnt the Greek tongue, knows about the love of Phaedra," and we may assume that Josephus and his readers would have been acquainted with it. The theme is, moreover, familiar in a number of myths—Bellerophon, Astydamia and Peleus, Demodice and Phrixus, Philonome and Cycnus, Damasippe and Hebrus, and Melanion. The popularity of this motif may be seen in its frequent appearance in the later Hellenistic novels, such as Heliodorus' Ethiopica, where we have the story of Demaenete and Cnemon.

⁴⁰ Moses HADAS, Hellenistic Culture: Fusion and Diffusion (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959) 152.

Related post: Potiphar's Wife.