While Bellerophon slept, he dreamed that Athena set a golden bridle beside him, saying 'Sleepest thou, prince of the house of Aiolos? Come, take this charm for the steed and show it to the Tamer thy father as thou makest sacrifice to him of a white bull.' It was there when he awoke. To obtain the services of the untamed winged horse, Polyeidos told Bellerophon to sleep in the temple of Athena. Polyeidos told Bellerophon that he would have need of Pegasus. On his way he encountered the famous Corinthian seer Polyeidos, who gave him advice about his oncoming battle. This monster had terrorized the nearby countryside.

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. 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 kill the Chimera, living in neighboring Caria. Proetus dared not satisfy his anger by killing a guest (who is protected by xenia), so he sent Bellerophon to King Iobates his father-in-law, in the plain of the River Xanthus in Lycia, bearing a sealed message in a folded tablet: 'Pray remove the bearer from this world: he attempted to violate my wife, your daughter.' Before opening the tablets, Iobates feasted with Bellerophon for nine days. The wife of the king, whether named Anteia or Stheneboea, took a fancy to him, but when he rejected her, she accused Bellerophon of attempting to ravish her.

Proetus, by virtue of his kingship, cleansed Bellerophon of his crime. 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 Д«ellerophon's brave journey began in the familiar way, with an exile: he had murdered either his brother, whose name is usually given as Deliades, Peiren or even Alcimenes, or killed a shadowy 'enemy', a 'Belleros' or 'Belleron', a ruler of the Corinthians (though the details are never directly told), and in expiation of his crime arrived as a suppliant to Proetus, king in Tiryns, one of the Mycenaean strongholds of the Argolid. 'From this moment we hear no more of Chrysaor, the rest of the tale concerning the stallion onlyВ . Chrysaor has no myth save that of his birth: from the severed neck of Medusa, who was with child by Poseidon, he and Pegasus both sprang at the moment of her death. In Stephanus of ByzantiumвЂ™s Ethnica, a genealogy is given for Chrysaor ('of the golden sword') that would make him a double of Bellerophon he is called the son of Glaucus (son of Sisyphus). Bellerophon's grandsons Sarpedon and the younger Glaucus fought in the Trojan War. Bellerophon's father was Glaucus, who was the king of Corinth and the son of Sisyphus. The Iliad vi.155вЂ“203 contains an embedded narrative told by Bellerophon's grandson Glaucus (who was named after his great-grandfather), which recounts Bellerophon's myth. Veroli Casket panel detail showing Bellerophon with Pegasus, dating from 900вЂ“1000 AD. 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. He was the brother of Deliades (also named Peiren or Alcimenes).Д«ellerophon was the father of Isander ( Peisander), Hippolochus, and Laodamia by Philonoe, daughter of King Iobates of Lycia. Family Д«ellerophon was born in Corinth and was the son of the mortal Eurynome by either her husband, Glaucus, or Poseidon. Belleros could have been a Lycian, a local daimon or a Corinthian nobleman-Bellerophon's name 'clearly invited all sorts of speculation'. However, Geoffrey Kirk says that 'О’ОµО»О»ОµПЃОїП†ПЊОЅП„О·П‚ means 'slayer of Belleros ''.

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