Pegasus
animal · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Pegas · some Pegasus · the horse Pegasus · the winged horse · winged Pegasus
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Orations
Mythological winged horse imagined as a means of surveying the earth from above.
But for myself, O Fortune—for it is to you, perhaps, that the speech might justly be addressed—if someone were to raise me on high and carry me aloft upon the back of some Pegasus, or upon the winged chariot of Pelops, spreading out beneath me the whole earth and its cities, I would not choose the luxury of the Lydians, nor the frugality of Attica, nor the poverty of Laconia, nor Croton—for they a …
Theogony
The winged horse born from Medusa's blood, named for the springs of Ocean, who flies to dwell with Zeus and carries his thunder and lightning.
And when Perseus cut off her head, there sprang forth great Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus who is so called because he was born near the springs of Ocean;
Isthmean
The winged horse who threw his rider Bellerophon when Bellerophon attempted to fly to the dwelling of the gods.
winged Pegasus threw his master Bellerophon, who wanted to go to the dwelling-places of heaven and the company of Zeus.
Olympian
The winged divine horse, born of the Gorgon, that Bellerophon tames with Athena's golden bridle and rides into battle.
Come, take this charm for the horse;
And so mighty Bellerophon eagerly stretched the gentle charmed bridle around its jaws and caught the winged horse.
how, at the seer’s bidding, he had gone to sleep for the night on the altar of the goddess, and how the daughter herself of Zeus whose spear is the thunderbolt had given him the spirit-subduing gold.
Phaedrus
Winged mythological horse named in Socrates's list of creatures that resist rational explanation.
But I, Phaedrus, think such explanations are very pretty in general, but are the inventions of a very clever and laborious and not altogether enviable man, for no other reason than because after this he must explain the forms of the Centaurs, and then that of the Chimaera, and there presses in upon him a whole crowd of such creatures, Gorgons and Pegas, and multitudes of strange, inconceivable, portentous natures.