Iodama

(Ἰοδάμα) - A Thessalian princess, daughter of King Itonus and granddaughter of Amphictyon, who served as a priestess at the ancient temple of Athena Itonia. In regional traditions recorded by later mythographers, Zeus courted and mingled with Iodama, who gave birth to a daughter named Thebe (the future namesake of Boeotian Thebes). Fearing Hera, she fled into the service of Athena, but one night she entered the sacred precinct and accidentally gazed upon the Gorgon Medusa's head worked into the goddess's tunic, which instantly turned her into stone.