Pegasus – Mythopedia
2023年3月24日 · 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
2023年7月7日 · 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 ...
Perseus – Mythopedia
2023年7月3日 · 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
2023年3月22日 · 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.
Andromeda - Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · 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.
Icarus – Mythopedia
2023年8月8日 · Icarus, son of Daedalus, was imprisoned by King Minos in the famous Labyrinth. He escaped with his father using wings made of feathers and held together with wax. But when Icarus foolishly flew too high, the heat from the sun melted the wax, and he fell to his death.
Arion – Mythopedia
2023年2月27日 · 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.
Centaurs - Mythopedia
2023年3月22日 · 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.
Greek Heroes – Mythopedia
2023年6月20日 · 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.
Medusa - Mythopedia
2023年3月11日 · 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.