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id="toc-Flight_to_Olympus_and_fall" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Flight_to_Olympus_and_fall"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Flight to Olympus and fall</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Flight_to_Olympus_and_fall-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Euripides'_Bellerophon" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Euripides'_Bellerophon"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Euripides' <i>Bellerophon</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Euripides'_Bellerophon-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Perseus_on_Pegasus" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Perseus_on_Pegasus"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Perseus on Pegasus</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Perseus_on_Pegasus-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gallery" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gallery"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Gallery</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gallery-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Footnotes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Footnotes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Footnotes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Footnotes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div 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href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82" title="Белерофонт – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Белерофонт" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerofon" title="Bellerofon – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Bellerofon" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C2%B7lerofont" title="Bel·lerofont – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Bel·lerofont" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82" title="Беллерофонт – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Беллерофонт" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerofont%C3%A9s" title="Bellerofontés – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Bellerofontés" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerophon" title="Bellerophon – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Bellerophon" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerofon" title="Bellerofon – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Bellerofon" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerophon" title="Bellerophon – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Bellerophon" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerophontes" title="Bellerophontes – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Bellerophontes" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CF%8C%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82" title="Βελλεροφόντης – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βελλεροφόντης" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belerofonte" title="Belerofonte – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Belerofonte" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belerofono" title="Belerofono – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Belerofono" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belerofon" title="Belerofon – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Belerofon" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86" title="بلروفون – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="بلروفون" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%C3%A9rophon" title="Bellérophon – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Bellérophon" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belerofonte" title="Belerofonte – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Belerofonte" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B2%A8%EB%A0%88%EB%A1%9C%ED%8F%B0" title="벨레로폰 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="벨레로폰" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerofon" title="Bellerofon – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Bellerofon" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerofonte" title="Bellerofonte – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Bellerofonte" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9F" title="בלרופון – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="בלרופון" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A4%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="ბელეროფონი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ბელეროფონი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belerofon" title="Belerofon – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Belerofon" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerophon" title="Bellerophon – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Bellerophon" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerofons" title="Bellerofons – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Bellerofons" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerophon" title="Bellerophon – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Bellerophon" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belerofonas" title="Belerofonas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Belerofonas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belleroph%C3%B3n" title="Bellerophón – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Bellerophón" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerophon" title="Bellerophon – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Bellerophon" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%98%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9C%E1%80%B2%E1%80%B7%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC%E1%80%96%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA" title="ဘာလဲ့ရာဖန် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဘာလဲ့ရာဖန်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerophon_(mythologie)" title="Bellerophon (mythologie) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Bellerophon (mythologie)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3" title="ベレロポーン – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ベレロポーン" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerofon" title="Bellerofon – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Bellerofon" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerofont" title="Bellerofont – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Bellerofont" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerofont" title="Bellerofont – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Bellerofont" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belerofonte" title="Belerofonte – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Belerofonte" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belerofon" title="Belerofon – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Belerofon" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82" title="Беллерофонт – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Беллерофонт" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerophon" title="Bellerophon – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Bellerophon" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerofontes" title="Bellerofontes – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Bellerofontes" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belerofont" title="Belerofont – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Belerofont" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82" title="Белерофонт – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Белерофонт" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a 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class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <b>Bellerophontes</b> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a>: Βελλεροφών; <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Βελλεροφόντης</span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> "slayer of Belleros") or <b>Hipponous</b> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a>: Ἱππόνοος; <a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> "horse-knower"),<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a <a href="/wiki/Divine" class="mw-redirect" title="Divine">divine</a> <a href="/wiki/Corinth" title="Corinth">Corinthian</a> <a href="/wiki/Hero" title="Hero">hero</a> of <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, the son of <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eurynome_of_Megara" class="mw-redirect" title="Eurynome of Megara">Eurynome</a>, and the foster son of <a href="/wiki/Glaucus_(son_of_Sisyphus)" title="Glaucus (son of Sisyphus)">Glaukos</a>. He was "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside <a href="/wiki/Cadmus" title="Cadmus">Cadmus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a>, before the days of <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his greatest feats was killing the <a href="/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)" title="Chimera (mythology)">Chimera</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a>, a monster that <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail: "her breath came out in terrible blasts of burning flame."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bellerophon,_Pegasus,_and_Athena.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg/220px-Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="189" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg/330px-Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg/440px-Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Bellerophon, <a href="/wiki/Pegasus" title="Pegasus">Pegasus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Roman_art" title="Roman art">Roman fresco</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a>, first half of the 1st century</figcaption></figure> <p>Bellerophon was also known for capturing and taming the <a href="/wiki/List_of_winged_horses" class="mw-redirect" title="List of winged horses">winged horse</a> <a href="/wiki/Pegasus" title="Pegasus">Pegasus</a> with the help of <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a>'s charmed bridle, and earning the disfavour of the gods after attempting to ride Pegasus to <a href="/wiki/Mount_Olympus" title="Mount Olympus">Mount Olympus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One possible etymology that has been suggested is: Βελλεροφόντης (Bellerophóntēs) from Ancient Greek βέλεμνον (bélemnon), βελόνη (belóne) or βέλος (bélos, "projectile, dart, javelin, needle, arrow") and -φόντης (-phóntēs, "slayer") from φονεύω (phoneúō, "to slay").<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Kirk" title="Geoffrey Kirk">Geoffrey Kirk</a> says that "Βελλεροφόντης means 'slayer of Belleros<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>".<sup id="cite_ref-Kirk_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <i>Scholia of Homer</i>, he was named so after having slain a Corinthian citizen of that same name by accident, while practicing his <a href="/wiki/Knife_throwing" title="Knife throwing">knife throwing</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which caused him to be exiled to <a href="/wiki/Lycia" title="Lycia">Lycia</a>; this origin hypothesis would correspond to how <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a> got his epithet 'Argeiphontes' (<a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> 'slayer of Argus') after slaying <a href="/wiki/Argus_Panoptes" title="Argus Panoptes">Argus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to some scholars, Belleros could have also been a local Lycian <a href="/wiki/Daimon" title="Daimon">daimon</a>, as Bellerophon's name "invited all sorts of speculation".<sup id="cite_ref-Kirk_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The only other authors to mention a Belleros killed by Bellerophon are two Byzantine scholars, <a href="/wiki/John_Tzetzes" title="John Tzetzes">John Tzetzes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica" title="Eustathius of Thessalonica">Eustathius of Thessalonica</a>, who both seem to be following Bellerophon's own name etymology.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on an AI-generated source. (November 2024)">AI-generated source?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bellerophon was the son of the mortal <a href="/wiki/Eurynome_(daughter_of_Nisus)" title="Eurynome (daughter of Nisus)">Eurynome</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (or <a href="/wiki/Eurymede" title="Eurymede">Eurymede</a><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) and <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a>; having been raised by his foster father <a href="/wiki/Glaucus_(son_of_Sisyphus)" title="Glaucus (son of Sisyphus)">Glaukos</a>. He was the brother of <a href="/wiki/Deliades_(mythology)" title="Deliades (mythology)">Deliades</a> (also named <a href="/wiki/Piren" title="Piren">Peiren</a> or <a href="/wiki/Alcimenes" title="Alcimenes">Alcimenes</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bellerophon was the father of <a href="/wiki/Isander" title="Isander">Isander</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Peisander_(mythology)" title="Peisander (mythology)">Peisander</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-:0_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hippolochus_of_Lycia" class="mw-redirect" title="Hippolochus of Lycia">Hippolochus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Laodamia" title="Laodamia">Laodamia</a><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Deidamia_(Greek_myth)" title="Deidamia (Greek myth)">Deidamia</a><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <a href="/wiki/Hippodamia_(mythology)" title="Hippodamia (mythology)">Hippodamia</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) by <a href="/wiki/Philonoe" title="Philonoe">Philonoe</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on an AI-generated source. (November 2024)">AI-generated source?</span></a></i>]</sup> daughter of King <a href="/wiki/Iobates" title="Iobates">Iobates</a> of <a href="/wiki/Lycia" title="Lycia">Lycia</a>. Philonoe was also known under several other names: <a href="/wiki/Alcimedusa" title="Alcimedusa">Alkimedousa</a> or <a href="/wiki/Cassandra_(mythology)" title="Cassandra (mythology)">Cassandra</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Anticlea_(mythology)" title="Anticlea (mythology)">Anticleia</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pasandra&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pasandra (page does not exist)">Pasandra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some accounts, Bellerophon also fathered <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydissos_(mythology)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hydissos (mythology) (page does not exist)">Hydissos</a> by <a href="/wiki/Asteria_(mythology)" title="Asteria (mythology)">Asteria</a>, daughter of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydeus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hydeus (page does not exist)">Hydeus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythology">Mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> vi.155–203 contained an <a href="/wiki/Story_within_a_story" title="Story within a story">embedded narrative</a> told by Bellerophon's grandson <a href="/wiki/Glaucus_of_Lycia" class="mw-redirect" title="Glaucus of Lycia">Glaucus</a> (who was named after his great-grandfather), which recounted Bellerophon's myth. In this narrative, Bellerophon's father was Glaucus,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who was the King of <a href="/wiki/Potniae" title="Potniae">Potniae</a> and son of <a href="/wiki/Sisyphus" title="Sisyphus">Sisyphus</a>; Bellerophon's grandsons <a href="/wiki/Sarpedon" title="Sarpedon">Sarpedon</a> and the younger Glaucus fought in the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a>'s <i>Ethnica</i>, a genealogy was given for a figure named <a href="/wiki/Chrysaor" title="Chrysaor">Chrysaor</a> ("of the golden sword"), which would make him a double of Bellerophon: he was called the son of Glaucus (son of Sisyphus). Chrysaor has no myth besides that of his birth: from the severed neck of <a href="/wiki/Medusa" title="Medusa">Medusa</a>, who was with child by Poseidon, he and <a href="/wiki/Pegasus" title="Pegasus">Pegasus</a> were both born at the moment of her death. "From this moment we hear no more of Chrysaor, the rest of the tale concerning the stallion only... [who visited the spring of <a href="/wiki/Pirene_(nymph)" title="Pirene (nymph)">Pirene</a>] perhaps also for his brother's sake, by whom in the end he let himself be caught, the immortal horse by his mortal brother."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Exile_in_Argos">Exile in Argos</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Exile in Argos"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bellerophon's brave journey began in a familiar way,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with an exile: in one narrative he had murdered his brother, whose name was given as Deliades, Peiren or Alcimenes; a more precise narrative involves him slaying a Corinthian citizen or nobleman called "Belleros"<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or "Belleron" by accident, while practicing knife-throwing with his friends, which caused the name change from <i>Hipponous</i> to <i>Bellerophon.</i> </p><p>In atonement for this crime, he had to make a plea to <a href="/wiki/Proetus_(king_of_Argos_and_Tiryns)" class="mw-redirect" title="Proetus (king of Argos and Tiryns)">Proetus</a>, a king in <a href="/wiki/Tiryns" title="Tiryns">Tiryns</a>, one of the <a href="/wiki/Achaea" title="Achaea">Achaean</a> strongholds of the <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_ancient_Greece#Argolis" title="Regions of ancient Greece">Argolid</a>. Proetus, by virtue of his kingship, cleansed Bellerophon of his crime. But when the wife of king Proetus – whose name was either <a href="/wiki/Anteia" class="mw-redirect" title="Anteia">Anteia</a><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <a href="/wiki/Stheneboea" title="Stheneboea">Stheneboea</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> tried to make advances on him, he rejected her, causing her to accuse Bellerophon of attempting to make advances on her instead.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Proetus dared not to satisfy his anger by killing a guest (who is protected by <i><a href="/wiki/Xenia_(Greek)" title="Xenia (Greek)">xenia</a></i>), causing him to finally exile Bellerophon to King Iobates, his father-in-law from the plain of the River <a href="/wiki/Xanthos" title="Xanthos">Xanthus</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lycia" title="Lycia">Lycia</a>, bearing a sealed letter in a folded tablet which read: "Please remove this bearer from the world: he attempted to violate my wife, your daughter."<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before opening the tablets, Iobates feasted with Bellerophon for nine days. On reading the tablet's message Iobates too feared the wrath of the <a href="/wiki/Erinyes" title="Erinyes">Erinyes</a> if he murdered a guest; so he sent Bellerophon on a mission that he deemed impossible to survive: to kill the <a href="/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)" title="Chimera (mythology)">Chimera</a>, living in neighboring <a href="/wiki/Caria" title="Caria">Caria</a>. The Chimera was a fire-breathing monster consisting of the body of a goat, the head of a lion and the tail of a serpent. This monster had terrorized the nearby countryside. </p><p>On his way to Caria, he encountered the famous <a href="/wiki/Corinth" title="Corinth">Corinthian</a> <a href="/wiki/Fortune_teller" class="mw-redirect" title="Fortune teller">fortune teller</a> <a href="/wiki/Polyeidos" class="mw-redirect" title="Polyeidos">Polyeidos</a>, who gave him advice on his upcoming battle, telling Bellerophon that in order to emerge victorious, he would be in need of the mythical <a href="/wiki/Pegasus" title="Pegasus">Pegasus</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Capturing_Pegasus">Capturing Pegasus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Capturing Pegasus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Columbia_University,_NYC_(June_2014)_-_13.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Columbia_University%2C_NYC_%28June_2014%29_-_13.JPG/170px-Columbia_University%2C_NYC_%28June_2014%29_-_13.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Columbia_University%2C_NYC_%28June_2014%29_-_13.JPG/255px-Columbia_University%2C_NYC_%28June_2014%29_-_13.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Columbia_University%2C_NYC_%28June_2014%29_-_13.JPG/340px-Columbia_University%2C_NYC_%28June_2014%29_-_13.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Bellerophon_Taming_Pegasus" title="Bellerophon Taming Pegasus">Bellerophon Taming Pegasus</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Lipchitz" title="Jacques Lipchitz">Jacques Lipchitz</a>. 1977. <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>, New York.</figcaption></figure> <p>To obtain the services of the untamed winged horse, Polyeidos told Bellerophon to sleep in the temple of <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a>. While Bellerophon slept, he dreamed that Athena set a golden bridle beside him, saying "Sleepest thou, prince of the house of <a href="/wiki/Aeolus_(son_of_Hellen)" title="Aeolus (son of Hellen)">Aiolos</a>? Come, take this charm for the steed and show it to the <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Tamer thy father</a> as thou makest sacrifice to him of a white bull."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was there when he awoke and understood that he had to approach Pegasus while it drank from a well. When asked, Polyeidos told him which well: the never-failing <a href="/wiki/Pirene_(fountain)" title="Pirene (fountain)">Pirene</a> on the citadel of Corinth, the city of Bellerophon's birth. Bellerophon mounted his steed and flew off, back to Lycia where the Chimera was said to dwell. </p><p>Other accounts say that Athena brought Pegasus already tamed and bridled, or that Poseidon the horse-tamer, secretly the father of Bellerophon, brought Pegasus, as <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a> understood.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_slaying_of_the_Chimera">The slaying of the Chimera</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The slaying of the Chimera"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bellerophon_riding_Pegasus_and_killing_the_Chimera,_Roman_mosaic,_the_Rolin_Museum_in_Autun,_France,_2nd_to_3rd_century_AD.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Bellerophon_riding_Pegasus_and_killing_the_Chimera%2C_Roman_mosaic%2C_the_Rolin_Museum_in_Autun%2C_France%2C_2nd_to_3rd_century_AD.jpg/170px-Bellerophon_riding_Pegasus_and_killing_the_Chimera%2C_Roman_mosaic%2C_the_Rolin_Museum_in_Autun%2C_France%2C_2nd_to_3rd_century_AD.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Bellerophon_riding_Pegasus_and_killing_the_Chimera%2C_Roman_mosaic%2C_the_Rolin_Museum_in_Autun%2C_France%2C_2nd_to_3rd_century_AD.jpg/255px-Bellerophon_riding_Pegasus_and_killing_the_Chimera%2C_Roman_mosaic%2C_the_Rolin_Museum_in_Autun%2C_France%2C_2nd_to_3rd_century_AD.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Bellerophon_riding_Pegasus_and_killing_the_Chimera%2C_Roman_mosaic%2C_the_Rolin_Museum_in_Autun%2C_France%2C_2nd_to_3rd_century_AD.jpg/340px-Bellerophon_riding_Pegasus_and_killing_the_Chimera%2C_Roman_mosaic%2C_the_Rolin_Museum_in_Autun%2C_France%2C_2nd_to_3rd_century_AD.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1866" data-file-height="1906" /></a><figcaption>Bellerophon riding Pegasus and slaying the Chimera, central medallion of a <a href="/wiki/Gallo-Roman" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallo-Roman">Gallo-Roman</a> mosaic from <a href="/wiki/Autun" title="Autun">Autun</a>, 2nd century AD, <a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Rolin" title="Musée Rolin">Musée Rolin</a></figcaption></figure> <p>When Bellerophon arrived in Lycia to face the ferocious <a href="/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)" title="Chimera (mythology)">Chimera</a>, he could not harm the monster even while riding Pegasus. But when he felt the Chimera's hot breath, he was struck with an idea. He got a large block of lead and mounted it on his spear. He then flew head-on towards the Chimera, holding out the spear as far as he could. Before breaking off his attack, he lodged the block of lead inside the Chimera's throat. The beast's fire-breath melted the lead, which blocked its air passage, suffocating it.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on an AI-generated source. (November 2024)">AI-generated source?</span></a></i>]</sup> Some <a href="/wiki/Red-figure_pottery" title="Red-figure pottery">red-figure pottery</a> painters show Bellerophon wielding Poseidon's trident instead.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_Iobates">Return to Iobates</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Return to Iobates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FiresChimera2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/FiresChimera2.jpg/170px-FiresChimera2.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/FiresChimera2.jpg/255px-FiresChimera2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/FiresChimera2.jpg/340px-FiresChimera2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="748" /></a><figcaption>The eternal fires of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Chimaera" title="Mount Chimaera">Chimera</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lycia" title="Lycia">Lycia</a> (modern-day <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>) where the <a href="/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)" title="Chimera (mythology)">Chimera myth</a> takes place.</figcaption></figure> <p>When Bellerophon returned victorious to King Iobates,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the king was unwilling to believe his story. A series of daunting <a href="/wiki/Quest" title="Quest">quests</a> ensued: Bellerophon was sent against the warlike <a href="/wiki/Amazons" title="Amazons">Amazons</a>, who fought like men, but he vanquished them by dropping boulders from his winged horse; in some narratives, this is preceded by Bellerophon facing off the <a href="/wiki/Solymi" class="mw-redirect" title="Solymi">Solymi</a>. </p><p>When he was sent against a Carian pirate, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cheirmarrhus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cheirmarrhus (page does not exist)">Cheirmarrhus</a>, they tried to ambush him, but failed when Bellerophon killed everyone sent to assassinate him. The palace guards then were sent against him, but Bellerophon called upon his father Poseidon, who flooded the plain of <a href="/wiki/Xanthos" title="Xanthos">Xanthus</a> behind Bellerophon as he approached. To defend themselves, the palace women rushed from the gates with their robes lifted high to expose themselves. Unwilling to confront them while they were undressed, Bellerophon withdrew.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Iobates relented, produced the letter, and allowed Bellerophon to marry his daughter Philonoe, the younger sister of <a href="/wiki/Anteia" class="mw-redirect" title="Anteia">Anteia</a>, and shared with him half his kingdom,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with its fine vineyards and grain fields. The lady Philonoe bore him Isander (Peisander),<sup id="cite_ref-:0_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hippolochus and Laodamia, who slept with Zeus the Counselor and bore <a href="/wiki/Sarpedon" title="Sarpedon">Sarpedon</a>, but was slain by <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Flight_to_Olympus_and_fall">Flight to Olympus and fall</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Flight to Olympus and fall"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Airborne_Units.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/British_Airborne_Units.svg/170px-British_Airborne_Units.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/British_Airborne_Units.svg/255px-British_Airborne_Units.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/British_Airborne_Units.svg/340px-British_Airborne_Units.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="415" data-file-height="413" /></a><figcaption>The emblem of the World War II British Airborne Forces – Bellerophon riding the flying horse Pegasus.</figcaption></figure> <p>As Bellerophon's fame grew, so did his <a href="/wiki/Hubris" title="Hubris">hubris</a>. Bellerophon felt that because of his victory over the Chimera, he deserved to fly to <a href="/wiki/Mount_Olympus" title="Mount Olympus">Mount Olympus</a>, the home of the gods. This act angered <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> and he sent a <a href="/wiki/Gadfly_(mythology)" title="Gadfly (mythology)">gadfly</a> to sting Pegasus, causing Bellerophon to fall back to Earth and die. Pegasus completed the flight to Olympus, where Zeus used him as a pack horse for his thunderbolts.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to other narratives, on the Plain of Aleion ("Wandering") in <a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a>, Bellerophon, who had been blinded after falling into a thorn bush, lived out his life in misery, "devouring his own soul", until he died.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Euripides'_Bellerophon"><span id="Euripides.27_Bellerophon"></span>Euripides' <i>Bellerophon</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Euripides' Bellerophon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bellerophon_(play)" title="Bellerophon (play)">Bellerophon (play)</a></div> <p>Enough fragments of <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>' lost tragedy <i>Bellerophon</i> remain (as about thirty quotations in surviving texts) to give scholars a basis for assessing its theme: the tragic outcome of his attempt to storm Olympus on Pegasus. An outspoken passage in which Bellerophon seems to doubt the gods' existence, due to the contrast between the wicked and impious, who live lives of ease, with the suffering of the good is apparently the basis for <a href="/wiki/Aristophanes" title="Aristophanes">Aristophanes</a>' imputation of "<a href="/wiki/Atheism#History#Classical_Antiquity" title="Atheism">atheism</a>" to the poet.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Perseus_on_Pegasus">Perseus on Pegasus</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Perseus on Pegasus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a></div> <p>The replacement of Bellerophon by the more familiar <a href="/wiki/Culture_hero" title="Culture hero">culture hero</a> <a href="/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a> was a development of Classical times that was standardized during the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a> and has been adopted by the European poets of the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> and later.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:NAMA_Epinetron_Bell%C3%A9rophon.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bellerophon on Pegasus spears the Chimera, on an Attic red-figure epinetron, 425–420 BC"><img alt="Bellerophon on Pegasus spears the Chimera, on an Attic red-figure epinetron, 425–420 BC" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/NAMA_Epinetron_Bell%C3%A9rophon.jpg/120px-NAMA_Epinetron_Bell%C3%A9rophon.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/NAMA_Epinetron_Bell%C3%A9rophon.jpg/180px-NAMA_Epinetron_Bell%C3%A9rophon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/NAMA_Epinetron_Bell%C3%A9rophon.jpg/240px-NAMA_Epinetron_Bell%C3%A9rophon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1070" data-file-height="982" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Bellerophon on <a href="/wiki/Pegasus" title="Pegasus">Pegasus</a> spears the <a href="/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)" title="Chimera (mythology)">Chimera</a>, on an <a href="/wiki/Attica" title="Attica">Attic</a> <a href="/wiki/Red-figure_pottery" title="Red-figure pottery">red-figure</a> <a href="/wiki/Epinetron" title="Epinetron">epinetron</a>, 425–420 BC</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pittore_di_baltimora_(apulia),_piatto_con_chimera_e_bellerofonte_su_pegaso,_350-300_ac_ca._(depositi_M._Naz._romano).JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Bellerophon seated on Pegasus slaying the Chimera (300–350 B.C.), National Roman Museum – Palazzo Massimo"><img alt="Bellerophon seated on Pegasus slaying the Chimera (300–350 B.C.), National Roman Museum – Palazzo Massimo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Pittore_di_baltimora_%28apulia%29%2C_piatto_con_chimera_e_bellerofonte_su_pegaso%2C_350-300_ac_ca._%28depositi_M._Naz._romano%29.JPG/120px-Pittore_di_baltimora_%28apulia%29%2C_piatto_con_chimera_e_bellerofonte_su_pegaso%2C_350-300_ac_ca._%28depositi_M._Naz._romano%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Pittore_di_baltimora_%28apulia%29%2C_piatto_con_chimera_e_bellerofonte_su_pegaso%2C_350-300_ac_ca._%28depositi_M._Naz._romano%29.JPG/180px-Pittore_di_baltimora_%28apulia%29%2C_piatto_con_chimera_e_bellerofonte_su_pegaso%2C_350-300_ac_ca._%28depositi_M._Naz._romano%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Pittore_di_baltimora_%28apulia%29%2C_piatto_con_chimera_e_bellerofonte_su_pegaso%2C_350-300_ac_ca._%28depositi_M._Naz._romano%29.JPG/240px-Pittore_di_baltimora_%28apulia%29%2C_piatto_con_chimera_e_bellerofonte_su_pegaso%2C_350-300_ac_ca._%28depositi_M._Naz._romano%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2754" data-file-height="2718" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Bellerophon seated on Pegasus slaying the Chimera (300–350 B.C.), <a href="/wiki/National_Roman_Museum_of_Palazzo_Massimo" title="National Roman Museum of Palazzo Massimo">National Roman Museum – Palazzo Massimo</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bellerophon_killing_Chimaera_(mosaic_from_Rhodes).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A Hellenistic Greek mosaic of Bellerophon riding Pegasus while slaying the Chimera, 300–270 BC, Archaeological Museum of Rhodes"><img alt="A Hellenistic Greek mosaic of Bellerophon riding Pegasus while slaying the Chimera, 300–270 BC, Archaeological Museum of Rhodes" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Bellerophon_killing_Chimaera_%28mosaic_from_Rhodes%29.jpg/120px-Bellerophon_killing_Chimaera_%28mosaic_from_Rhodes%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Bellerophon_killing_Chimaera_%28mosaic_from_Rhodes%29.jpg/180px-Bellerophon_killing_Chimaera_%28mosaic_from_Rhodes%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Bellerophon_killing_Chimaera_%28mosaic_from_Rhodes%29.jpg/240px-Bellerophon_killing_Chimaera_%28mosaic_from_Rhodes%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3142" data-file-height="2304" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_art" title="Hellenistic art">Hellenistic Greek</a> <a href="/wiki/Mosaic" title="Mosaic">mosaic</a> of Bellerophon riding <a href="/wiki/Pegasus" title="Pegasus">Pegasus</a> while slaying the <a href="/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)" title="Chimera (mythology)">Chimera</a>, 300–270 BC, <a href="/wiki/Archaeological_Museum_of_Rhodes" title="Archaeological Museum of Rhodes">Archaeological Museum of Rhodes</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bellerophon_mosaic,_N%C3%AEmes_-_panel_5_Bellerophon_(N%C3%AEmes,_Mus_Arch).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A Roman mosaic of Bellerophon slaying the Chimera, 2nd to 3rd centuries AD, Musée de la Romanité"><img alt="A Roman mosaic of Bellerophon slaying the Chimera, 2nd to 3rd centuries AD, Musée de la Romanité" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Bellerophon_mosaic%2C_N%C3%AEmes_-_panel_5_Bellerophon_%28N%C3%AEmes%2C_Mus_Arch%29.jpg/120px-Bellerophon_mosaic%2C_N%C3%AEmes_-_panel_5_Bellerophon_%28N%C3%AEmes%2C_Mus_Arch%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Bellerophon_mosaic%2C_N%C3%AEmes_-_panel_5_Bellerophon_%28N%C3%AEmes%2C_Mus_Arch%29.jpg/180px-Bellerophon_mosaic%2C_N%C3%AEmes_-_panel_5_Bellerophon_%28N%C3%AEmes%2C_Mus_Arch%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Bellerophon_mosaic%2C_N%C3%AEmes_-_panel_5_Bellerophon_%28N%C3%AEmes%2C_Mus_Arch%29.jpg/240px-Bellerophon_mosaic%2C_N%C3%AEmes_-_panel_5_Bellerophon_%28N%C3%AEmes%2C_Mus_Arch%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2934" data-file-height="2304" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A <a href="/wiki/Roman_mosaic" title="Roman mosaic">Roman mosaic</a> of Bellerophon slaying the Chimera, 2nd to 3rd centuries AD, <a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_de_la_Romanit%C3%A9" title="Musée de la Romanité">Musée de la Romanité</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Veroli_casket_Bellerophon_fine_detail.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Veroli Casket panel detail showing Bellerophon with Pegasus, dating from 900 to 1000 AD."><img alt="Veroli Casket panel detail showing Bellerophon with Pegasus, dating from 900 to 1000 AD." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Veroli_casket_Bellerophon_fine_detail.jpg/120px-Veroli_casket_Bellerophon_fine_detail.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Veroli_casket_Bellerophon_fine_detail.jpg/180px-Veroli_casket_Bellerophon_fine_detail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Veroli_casket_Bellerophon_fine_detail.jpg/240px-Veroli_casket_Bellerophon_fine_detail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1311" data-file-height="966" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Veroli_Casket" title="Veroli Casket">Veroli Casket</a> panel detail showing Bellerophon with Pegasus, dating from 900 to 1000 AD.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The-Winged-Horse.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bellerophon riding Pegasus (1914)"><img alt="Bellerophon riding Pegasus (1914)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/The-Winged-Horse.jpg/86px-The-Winged-Horse.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/The-Winged-Horse.jpg/129px-The-Winged-Horse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/The-Winged-Horse.jpg/172px-The-Winged-Horse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="952" data-file-height="1324" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Bellerophon riding Pegasus (1914)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <i>nomen agentis</i> is also attested in the compound Ἀργειφόντης <i>Argeï<u>phontes</u></i>, an epithet of god <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a> that means 'Slayer of [the Giant] <a href="/wiki/Argus_Panoptes" title="Argus Panoptes">Argos</a>'.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">It is also understood that Belleros is "a character whose further mentions don't exist in the extant literature".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_Tzetzes" title="John Tzetzes">Tzetzes</a>, <i>Chiliades</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/617#7.810">7.810 (TE2.149)</a><i>;</i> <a href="/wiki/Scholia" title="Scholia">Scholia</a> on <a href="/wiki/Pindar" title="Pindar">Pindar</a>, <i>Olympian Ode</i> 13.66</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Assunçâo, Teodoro Renno. "[www.persee.fr/doc/gaia_1287-3349_1997_num_1_1_1332 Le mythe iliadique de Bellérophon]". In: <i>Gaia: revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce Archaïque</i>, numéro 1-2, 1997. pp. 42-43. DOI: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://doi.org/10.3406/gaia.1997.1332">https://doi.org/10.3406/gaia.1997.1332</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kerenyi 1959, p. 75.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Iliad</i> vi.155–203.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRomanRoman2010" class="citation book cs1">Roman, Luke; Roman, Monica (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tOgWfjNIxoMC"><i>Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology</i></a>. Infobase Publishing. p. 103. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4381-2639-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4381-2639-5"><bdi>978-1-4381-2639-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+Greek+and+Roman+Mythology&rft.pages=103&rft.pub=Infobase+Publishing&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1-4381-2639-5&rft.aulast=Roman&rft.aufirst=Luke&rft.au=Roman%2C+Monica&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DtOgWfjNIxoMC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABellerophon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Breuil, Jean-Luc. "ΚΡΑΤΟΣ et sa famille chez Homère: étude sémantique". In: <i>Études homériques. Séminaire de recherche sous la direction de Michel Casevitz</i>. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 1989. p. 41. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient, 17) www.persee.fr/doc/mom_0766-0510_1989_sem_17_1_1734</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sauge, André. "[www.persee.fr/doc/gaia_1287-3349_2005_num_9_1_1476 Remarques sur quelques aspects linguistiques de l'épopée homérique et sur leurs conséquences pour l'époque de fixation du texte (Seconde Partie)]". In: <i>Gaia: revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce Archaïque</i>, numéro 9, 2005. p. 117. DOI: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://doi.org/10.3406/gaia.2005.1476">https://doi.org/10.3406/gaia.2005.1476</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Kirk-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Kirk_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kirk_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirk 1990, p. 178</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scholion zu Homer, p.155</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Karl_Kerenyi" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl Kerenyi">Kerenyi</a> 1959, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/heroes-of-the-greeks-carl-kerenyi/page/n107/mode/2up?view=theater">79</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"... 'tueur de Belléros', personnage dont aucune autre mention n'apparaît dans la littérature conservée". Tourraix, Alexandre. <i>Le mirage grec. L'Orient du mythe et de l'épopée</i>. Besançon: Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité, 2000. p. 116. (Collection « ISTA », 756) DOI: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://doi.org/10.3406/ista.2000.2506">https://doi.org/10.3406/ista.2000.2506</a>; www.persee.fr/doc/ista_0000-0000_2000_mon_756_1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_Tzetzes" title="John Tzetzes">Tzetzes</a> ad <a href="/wiki/Lycophron" title="Lycophron">Lycophron</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/860#17">17</a>; <a href="/wiki/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica" title="Eustathius of Thessalonica">Eustathius</a> on <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> p. 632.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus" title="Gaius Julius Hyginus">Hyginus</a>, <i>Fabulae</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/206#157">157</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022">1.9.3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 1.9.3 & 2.3.1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> 6.196–197; <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, 2.3.1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Geographica" title="Geographica">Geographica</a></i> 12.8.5 & 13.4.16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> 6.206–210</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Homer, <i>Iliad</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:6.191-6.231">6.197–205</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a>, 5.79.3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pseudo-Clement" class="mw-redirect" title="Pseudo-Clement">Pseudo-Clement</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Clementine_Recognitions" class="mw-redirect" title="Clementine Recognitions">Recognitions</a></i> 10.21</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, 2.3.2; <a href="/wiki/Tzetzes" class="mw-redirect" title="Tzetzes">Tzetzes</a> ad <a href="/wiki/Lycophron" title="Lycophron">Lycophron</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/860#17">17</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Scholia" title="Scholia">Scholia</a> ad <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecain00homegoog/page/213/mode/1up?view=theater">6.192</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scholia ad <a href="/wiki/Pindar" title="Pindar">Pindar</a>, <i>Olympian Ode</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/scholiaveterain00dracgoog/page/374/mode/1up?view=theater">13.82b</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">?Scholia ad Homer, <i>Iliad</i> 6.155</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a>, s.v. <i>Hydissos</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">By some accounts, Bellerophon's father was really <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a>. Kerenyi 1959 p. 78 suggests that "sea-green" Glaucus is a double for <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a>, god of the sea, who looms behind many of the elements in Bellerophon's myth, not least as the sire of Pegasus and of Chrysaor, but also as the protector of Bellerophon.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kerenyi 1959 p. 80.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Campbell" title="Joseph Campbell">Joseph Campbell</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces" title="The Hero with a Thousand Faces">The Hero with a Thousand Faces</a>,</i> chapter 1, "Separation".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The suggestion, made by Kerenyi and others, makes the name "Bellerophontes" the "killer of Belleros", just as Hermes Argeiphontes is "Hermes the killer of <a href="/wiki/Argus_Panoptes" title="Argus Panoptes">Argus</a>". <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarpenter1950" class="citation journal cs1">Carpenter, Rhys (1950). "Argeiphontes: A Suggestion". <i><a href="/wiki/American_Journal_of_Archaeology" title="American Journal of Archaeology">American Journal of Archaeology</a></i>. <b>54</b> (3): 177–183. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F500295">10.2307/500295</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/500295">500295</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:191378610">191378610</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Journal+of+Archaeology&rft.atitle=Argeiphontes%3A+A+Suggestion&rft.volume=54&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=177-183&rft.date=1950&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A191378610%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F500295%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F500295&rft.aulast=Carpenter&rft.aufirst=Rhys&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABellerophon" class="Z3988"></span>, makes a carefully argued case for <i>Bellerophontes</i> as the "bane-slayer" of the "bane to mankind" in <i>Iliad</i> II.329, derived from a rare Greek word έλλερον, explained by the grammarians as κακόν, "evil". This έλλερον is connected by <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKatz1998" class="citation book cs1">Katz, J. (1998). "How to be a Dragon in Indo-European: Hittite illuyankas and its Linguistic and Cultural Congeners in Latin, Greek, and Germanic". In Jasanoff; Melchert; Oliver (eds.). <i>Mír Curad. Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins</i>. Innsbruck. pp. 317–334. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3851246675" title="Special:BookSources/3851246675"><bdi>3851246675</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=How+to+be+a+Dragon+in+Indo-European%3A+Hittite+illuyankas+and+its+Linguistic+and+Cultural+Congeners+in+Latin%2C+Greek%2C+and+Germanic&rft.btitle=M%C3%ADr+Curad.+Studies+in+Honor+of+Calvert+Watkins&rft.place=Innsbruck&rft.pages=317-334&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=3851246675&rft.aulast=Katz&rft.aufirst=J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABellerophon" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span> with a <a href="/wiki/Hesychius_of_Alexandria" title="Hesychius of Alexandria">Hesychius</a> gloss ελυες "water animal", and an Indo-European word for "snake", or "dragon", cognate to English <i><a href="/wiki/Eel" title="Eel">eel</a></i>, also found in Hittite <i><a href="/wiki/Illuyanka" title="Illuyanka">Illuyanka</a></i>, which would make Bellerophon the dragon slayer of <a href="/wiki/Indo-European_myth" class="mw-redirect" title="Indo-European myth">Indo-European myth</a>, represented by <a href="/wiki/Indra" title="Indra">Indra</a> slaying <a href="/wiki/Vrtra" class="mw-redirect" title="Vrtra">Vrtra</a> in Indo-Aryan, and by <a href="/wiki/Thor" title="Thor">Thor</a> slaying the <a href="/wiki/Midgard_Serpent" class="mw-redirect" title="Midgard Serpent">Midgard Serpent</a> in Germanic. Robert Graves in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Greek_Myths" title="The Greek Myths">The Greek Myths</a></i> rev. ed. 1960 suggested a translation "bearing darts".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> vi.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>' tragedies <i>Stheneboia</i> and <i>Bellerophontes</i> are lost.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This <a href="/wiki/Mytheme" title="Mytheme">mytheme</a> is most familiar in the narrative of Joseph and <a href="/wiki/Potiphar" title="Potiphar">Potiphar</a>'s wife. Robert Graves also notes the parallel in the Egyptian <i>Tale of Two Brothers</i> and in the desire of <a href="/wiki/Athamas" title="Athamas">Athamas</a>' wife for <a href="/wiki/Phrixus" title="Phrixus">Phrixus</a> (Graves 1960, 70.2, 75.1).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The tablets "on which he had traced a number of devices with a deadly meaning" constitute the only apparent reference to writing in the <i>Iliad</i>. Such a letter is termed a "bellerophontic" letter; one such figures in a subplot of Shakespeare's <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i>, bringing offstage death to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Such a letter figures in the earlier story of <a href="/wiki/Sargon_of_Akkad" title="Sargon of Akkad">Sargon of Akkad</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kerenyi 1959, quoting Apollodorus Mythographus, 2.7.4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Description of Greece</i> 2.4.6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pseudo-Nonnus" title="Pseudo-Nonnus">Pseudo-Nonnus</a>, <i>On <a href="/wiki/Gregory_of_Nazianzus" title="Gregory of Nazianzus">Gregory of Nazianzus</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eDhPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA388">1</a>; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/860#17">17</a>; <a href="/wiki/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica" title="Eustathius of Thessalonica">Eustathius</a> <i>On Homer's Iliad</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=u68RyEv1siMC&pg=RA1-PA102">6.494.40</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kerenyi 1959.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Theogony" title="Theogony">Theogony</a></i> 319 ff.; <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, 2.3.2; <a href="/wiki/Pindar" title="Pindar">Pindar</a>, <i>Olympian Odes</i> 13.63 ff.; <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, 2.4.1; Hyginus, <i>Fabulae</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/206#157">157</a>; <a href="/wiki/John_Tzetzes" title="John Tzetzes">John Tzetzes</a>, <i>On Lycophron</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Graves, 75.d; Plutarch, <i>On the Virtues of Women</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The inheritance of kingship through the king's daughter, with many heroic instances, was discussed by <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFinkelberg1991" class="citation journal cs1">Finkelberg, Margalit (1991). "Royal succession in heroic Greece". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Classical_Quarterly" class="mw-redirect" title="The Classical Quarterly">The Classical Quarterly</a></i>. New Series. <b>41</b> (2): 303–316. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0009838800004481">10.1017/s0009838800004481</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/638900">638900</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:170683301">170683301</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Classical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Royal+succession+in+heroic+Greece&rft.volume=41&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=303-316&rft.date=1991&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A170683301%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F638900%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2Fs0009838800004481&rft.aulast=Finkelberg&rft.aufirst=Margalit&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABellerophon" class="Z3988"></span>; compare <a href="/wiki/Orion_(mythology)" title="Orion (mythology)">Orion</a> and Merope.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Isander was struck down by Ares in battle with the Solymi (<i>Iliad</i> xvi).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i>, 6. 197–205</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOxford_Classical_Mythology_Online" class="citation web cs1">Oxford Classical Mythology Online. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110715021720/http://www.us.oup.com/us/companion.websites/0195153448/studentresources/chapters/ch25/?view=usa">"Chapter 25: Myths of Local Heroes and Heroines"</a>. <i>Classical Mythology, Seventh Edition</i>. Oxford University Press USA. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.us.oup.com/us/companion.websites/0195153448/studentresources/chapters/ch25/?view=usa">the original</a> on July 15, 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 26,</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Classical+Mythology%2C+Seventh+Edition&rft.atitle=Chapter+25%3A+Myths+of+Local+Heroes+and+Heroines&rft.au=Oxford+Classical+Mythology+Online&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.us.oup.com%2Fus%2Fcompanion.websites%2F0195153448%2Fstudentresources%2Fchapters%2Fch25%2F%3Fview%3Dusa&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABellerophon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In <a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_historica" title="Bibliotheca historica">Bibliotheca historica</a></i> 5.79.3: she was referred as Deidamia and made her wife of Evander, son of Sarpedon the elder, and by her, father of Sarpedon the younger.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Parallels are in the myths of <a href="/wiki/Icarus_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Icarus (mythology)">Icarus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Phaethon" title="Phaethon">Phaeton</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHomer1924" class="citation book cs1">Homer (1924). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:6.191-6.231"><i>The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes</i></a>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Vol. I (book 6, lines 202-204)<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2020-06-11</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Iliad+with+an+English+Translation+by+A.T.+Murray%2C+Ph.D.+in+two+volumes&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pages=Vol.+I+%28book+6%2C+lines+202-204%29&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=1924&rft.au=Homer&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext%3Fdoc%3Durn%3Acts%3AgreekLit%3Atlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1%3A6.191-6.231&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABellerophon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pindar, <i>Olympian Odes</i>, xiii.87–90, and <i>Isthmian Odes</i>, vii.44; <i>Bibliotheke</i> ii.3.2; <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> vi.155–203 and xvi.328; <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> ix.646.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRiedweg1990" class="citation journal cs1">Riedweg, Christoph (1990). "The 'atheistic' fragment from Euripides' <i>Bellerophontes</i> (286 N²)". <i>Illinois Classical Studies</i>. <b>15</b> (1): 39–53. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0363-1923">0363-1923</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Illinois+Classical+Studies&rft.atitle=The+%27atheistic%27+fragment+from+Euripides%27+Bellerophontes+%28286+N%C2%B2%29&rft.volume=15&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=39-53&rft.date=1990&rft.issn=0363-1923&rft.aulast=Riedweg&rft.aufirst=Christoph&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABellerophon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohnston1955" class="citation journal cs1">Johnston, George Burke (1955). "<a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Jonson</a>'s 'Perseus upon Pegasus'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>". <i>The Review of English Studies</i>. New Series. <b>6</b> (21): 65–67. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fres%2FVI.21.65">10.1093/res/VI.21.65</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Review+of+English+Studies&rft.atitle=Jonson%27s+%27Perseus+upon+Pegasus%27&rft.volume=6&rft.issue=21&rft.pages=65-67&rft.date=1955&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fres%2FVI.21.65&rft.aulast=Johnston&rft.aufirst=George+Burke&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABellerophon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Graves" title="Robert Graves">Graves, Robert</a>, 1960. <i>The Greek Myths</i>, revised edition (Harmondsworth: Penguin)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i>, book vi.155–203</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Kerenyi" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl Kerenyi">Kerenyi, Karl</a>, 1959. <i>The Heroes of the Greeks</i> (London: Thames and Hudson)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Kirk" title="Geoffrey Kirk">Kirk, G. S.</a>, 1990. <i>The Iliad: A Commentary Volume II: books 5-8.</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scholia" title="Scholia">Scholia</a> to <a href="/wiki/Lycophron" title="Lycophron">Lycophron's</a> <i>Alexandra</i>, marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/860">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a>. <a href="//archive.org/details/lycophronisalexa02lycouoft/page/n5/mode/2up" class="extiw" title="iarchive:lycophronisalexa02lycouoft/page/n5/mode/2up">Greek text available on Archive.org</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bellerophon&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span 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