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Belphoebe is from the amazing book by Edmund Spenser
Roses red and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.
Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto vi. St. 6
Belphoebe
(bel fee'bee,
Greek, "sharp light"
The name may have been coined by Edmund Spenser's for a character in
The Fairy Queen.
The Greek word
belos
means "dart" while
phoibos
(root of the familiar
Phoebe) means "light." Spenser's Belphoebe is a well-armed virgin huntress, a version of both the godess Diana and Queen Elizbeth I, and a militant personification of chastity. Her fighting skill are repeatedly tested and proven.
Belphoebe
The very beautiful sister of Amoret who spends her time in the woods hunting and avoiding the numerous amorous men who chase her. Timias, the squire of Arthur, eventually wins her love, after having been tended by her after receiving injuires in battle, but has to go through much suffering to prove his love when Belphoebe sees Timias tending to a wounded woman and, misinterpreting his actions, flies off hastily and is only lured back to see how Timias has wasted away because of her by the luring of a dove that gets her to chase him because he has taken a precious article of hers that Timias had kept with him.
