Pegasus
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
some Pegasus · the horse Pegasus
in the texts
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;