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Pegasus – Mythopedia Pegasus, an immortal winged horse, was born when Perseus beheaded Medusa; he emerged from the Gorgon’s blood along with the Giant Chrysaor Eventually, Pegasus was tamed and bridled by the Corinthian hero Bellerophon, and together they fought and killed the monstrous, fire-breathing Chimera
Bellerophon - Mythopedia Bellerophon tamed Pegasus with the help of Athena and rode him into battle against his enemies, including the monstrous Chimera Fresco in the third style showing Bellerophon (left) with Pegasus (center) and Athena (right), from the House of Lucius Betucius in Pompeii (1st century CE) Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg Sergey Sosnovskiy CC BY
Arion – Mythopedia Arion, child of the sea god Poseidon, was a horse famous for his incredible speed He belonged to the Argive king Adrastus, whose life he saved during the war of the Seven against Thebes
Griffin – Mythopedia The Griffin was a hybrid creature, usually represented with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion The Greeks imagined them as fierce hunters, and some sources believed they guarded rich hoards of gold in Asia
Chimera – Mythopedia Riding the winged horse Pegasus, Bellerophon tracked down the Chimera, fought it, and killed it Etymology The Chimera’s name comes from the Greek word chimaira, meaning “one-year-old animal” or, more specifically, “she-goat ” It is related to other Indo-European words for baby livestock, such as the Old Norse gymbr (“young sheep”)
Centaurs - Mythopedia In another, the slave Dia slept with both Ixion and the winged horse Pegasus on the same night and subsequently gave birth to offspring that combined the features of her two lovers Other sources claimed that there were several different kinds of Centaurs, each with separate origins
Medusa - Mythopedia After Medusa was killed, her two children by Poseidon were born from her blood One was the Giant Chrysaor, who became the father of the monster Geryon Much later, Geryon was killed by Heracles Medusa’s other child was Pegasus, the beautiful winged horse Pegasus was eventually tamed by the hero Bellerophon
Greek Heroes - Mythopedia Hesiod, Works and Days 160 ↩; Hesiod, Works and Days 109–79 Cf Ovid, Metamorphoses 1 89–112 ↩; Cf Gregory Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, 2nd ed (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), 118–210, where the heroes of epic and myth are distinguished from the heroes of cult
Perseus - Mythopedia Thus equipped, Perseus went to the cave of the Gorgons When he found Medusa, he was able to approach her without turning to stone by looking at her reflection in Athena’s shield He then cut off Medusa’s head using Zeus’ sword When Medusa’s blood spilled to the earth, the winged horse Pegasus and his brother Chrysaor were born Using
Amazons – Mythopedia Overview The Amazons were a race of warrior women famous for their military prowess and bravery The Greeks, whose society (and mythology) was dominated by the ideal of the male warrior, grudgingly referred to them as “equal to men ”