![]() ![]() Zeus was angry and send a gadfly to sting the horse. ![]() He said he would fly up into heaven and live there, and nobody could stop him. Bellrophon falling, by Walter Crane, 1892, $\ccpd$īut the young man grew very proud and insulting, even to the gods. Then of course he married the king’s daughter and lived very happily for a while. He asked Bellerophon to do a great many other hard and dangerous things, and with the help of Pegasus he did them all. The Chimera was conquered and killed.īellerophon rode proudly to the palace, and the king was glad to hear the good news. With the spear he had brought, Bellerophon drove it with a piece of hot, melted lead on the end straight through one of the Chimera’s mouths. Athena warned Bellerophon that the Chimera could only be killed from above, and with lead. It came out hissing and spitting fire, and there was a dreadful battle. ![]() Up they rose and flew over mountains and rivers until they reached Lycia. Photo taken of a Roman mosaic by Félix Potuit, 2009, $\ccpd$ ![]() Then the youth jumped on the horse’s back and said, “Now for Lycia and the Chimera! Let’s go and make the people wonder as they see us sailing through the air!” Bellerophon and the Chimera. Let me put it over your head.” Pegasus stood still, took the bit into his mouth, and let Bellerophon fasten the bridle. See, Athena has given you this beautiful bridle. Help me kill a monster which makes a whole country unhappy. The young man drew near to him and said, “Beautiful horse, do not fly away. He could gallop faster than any earthly horse and fly higher than any eagle. He was a beautiful horse with silver wings. That day the kind Athena led him to a well where Pegasus was drinking. When he awoke, the bridle was in his hand. The goddess appeared to him in a dream and gave him a magic bridle made of gold and precious stones. It may be that the goddess will appear to you and tell you what you wish to know,” the oracle said.īellerophon went to the temple, and when night came, lay down and slept. “You must go to the temple of Athena tonight and sleep there. “But where shall I find him?” asked the young man. They led him to an old oracle who told him, “The best thing you can do is to get the winged horse, Pegasus.” Bellerophon, the young man, said, “I am willing to try, but first I must find a wise man who can give me good advice.” The king told him about the Chimera and asked him if he would dare to meet and fight the beast. One day a handsome young man went to the palace and asked the king for something to do. The king was very anxious to find some hero who would kill the monster, but everybody was afraid. It ate cattle and people, so that the whole land groaned and trembled because of this dreadful creature. It breathed fire, and wherever it went the fields and villages were burned. It was part lion, part goat and part dragon, but altogether ugly and terrible. In the country of Lycia lived a monster called the Chimera. Shaw, $\ccpd$ Bellerophon protected by Athena, by Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, 1829, $\ccpd$ Unit 4: Hubris and Nemesis “The Winged Horse,” by Mary Hamilton Frye, $\ccpd$ Bellerophon and the ChimeraĪdapted from Stories of the Ancient Greeks by Charles D. ![]()
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