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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
Andromeda - Mythopedia Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, was a beautiful princess of Ethiopia Offered up as a sacrifice to Poseidon as punishment for her mother’s foolish boasts, Andromeda was rescued from death by Perseus, who took her back to Greece to be his queen
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
Chimera – Mythopedia Soaring atop Pegasus, Bellerophon tracked down the Chimera and attacked it from above According to one tradition, transmitted by a relatively late source, the hero came up with a clever strategy to kill the Chimera: he attached a ball of lead to the end of a spear, which he then thrust into the monster’s fire-breathing mouth
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
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
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
Theia – Mythopedia Theia was one of the Greek Titans who fought against the Olympians in their celestial war, the Titanomachy She married her brother Hyperion and eventually gave birth to the gods of the sun, the moon, and the dawn
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