![]() On reading the tablet's message Iobates too feared the wrath of the Erinyes if he murdered a guest so he sent Bellerophon on a mission that he deemed impossible to survive: to kill the Chimera, living in neighboring Caria. Proetus dared not to satisfy his anger by killing a guest (who is protected by xenia), causing him to finally exile Bellerophon to King Iobates, his father-in-law from the plain of the River Xanthus in Lycia, 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." īefore opening the tablets, Iobates feasted with Bellerophon for nine days. But when the wife of king Proetus – whose name was either Anteia or Stheneboea, tried to make advances on him, he rejected her, causing her to accuse Bellerophon of attempting to make advances on her instead. Proetus, by virtue of his kingship, cleansed Bellerophon of his crime. In atonement for this crime, he had to make a plea to Proetus, a king in Tiryns, one of the Achaean strongholds of the Argolid. perhaps also for his brother's sake, by whom in the end he let himself be caught, the immortal horse by his mortal brother." Exile in Argos īellerophon's brave journey began in a familiar way, 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" or "Belleron" by accident, while practicing knife-throwing with his friends, which caused the name change from Hipponous to Bellerophon. "From this moment we hear no more of Chrysaor, the rest of the tale concerning the stallion only. Chrysaor has no myth besides that of his birth: from the severed neck of Medusa, who was with child by Poseidon, he and Pegasus were both born at the moment of her death. In Stephanus of Byzantium’s Ethnica, a genealogy was given for a figure named Chrysaor ("of the golden sword"), which would make him a double of Bellerophon: he was called the son of Glaucus (son of Sisyphus). In this narrative, Bellerophon's father was Glaucus, who was the King of Potniae and son of Sisyphus Bellerophon's grandsons Sarpedon and the younger Glaucus fought in the Trojan War. The Iliad vi.155–203 contained an embedded narrative told by Bellerophon's grandson Glaucus (who was named after his great-grandfather), which recounted Bellerophon's myth. In some accounts, Bellerophon also fathered Hydissos by Asteria, daughter of Hydeus. Philonoe was also known under several other names: Alkimedousa, Anticleia, Pasandra, or Cassandra. īellerophon was the father of Isander ( Peisander), Hippolochus, and Laodamia ( Deidamia or Hippodamia ) by Philonoe, daughter of King Iobates of Lycia. He was the brother of Deliades (also named Peiren or Alcimenes). Family īellerophon was the son of the mortal Eurynome (or Eurymede ) and Poseidon having been raised by his foster father Glaukos. The only other authors to mention a Belleros killed by Bellerophon are two Byzantine scholars, John Tzetzes and Eustathius of Thessalonica, who both seem to be following Bellerophon's own name etymology. According to some scholars, Belleros could have also been a local Lycian daimon, as Bellerophon's name "invited all sorts of speculation". ![]() According to the Scholia of Homer, he was named so after having slain a Corinthian citizen of that same name by accident, while practicing his knife throwing, which caused him to be exiled to Lycia this origin hypothesis would correspond to how Hermes got his epithet 'Argeiphontes' ( lit. However, Geoffrey Kirk says that "Βελλεροφόντης means 'slayer of Belleros '". He was "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles", among his greatest feats was killing the Chimera of the Iliad, a monster that Homer 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." Bellerophon, Pegasus, and Athena, a Roman fresco in Pompeii, first half of the 1st centuryīellerophon was also known for capturing and taming the winged horse Pegasus with the help of Athena's charmed bridle, and earning the disfavour of the gods after attempting to ride Pegasus to Mount Olympus. ![]() ![]() "horse-knower"), was a divine Corinthian hero of Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and Eurynome, and the foster son of Glaukos. "slayer of Belleros") or Hipponous ( Ancient Greek: Ἱππονοος lit. Statue of Bellerophon petting Pegasus, from Geyre, Turkey (1st century AD)īellerophon or Bellerophontes ( Ancient Greek: Βελλεροφόν Βελλεροφόντης lit.
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