Bellerophon
mythological figure · 7 works · 7 mentions · 11 anchored passages
a Bellerophon · mighty Bellerophon · noble Bellerophon · son of Aeolus · this admirer of gold
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Mythological hero described by Homer as wandering in solitary grief.
\"Who, wretched, wandered mourning on the Aleian plains, eating his own heart, shunning the footprints of men\";
Orations
Mythological hero, tamer of Pegasus and slayer of the Chimaera, cited as exemplar of courage.
To grapple with and go to meet such a monster is the work of a truly mad man, or of one exceedingly brave and winged, a Perseus or a Bellerophon.
Theogony
The hero who, together with Pegasus, slays the Chimaera.
Her did Pegasus and noble Bellerophon slay;
Iliad
Legendary Lycian hero and grandfather of Glaukos, who survives exile, deadly trials including the Chimaera, and is eventually honored, though he later falls into divine disfavor.
Great Oeneus once entertained Bellerophon for twenty days, and the two exchanged presents.
he picked [ krinô] the bravest warriors in all Lycia, and placed them in ambuscade, but not a man ever came back, for Bellerophon killed every one of them.
but when Bellerophon came to be hated by all the gods, he wandered all desolate and dismayed upon the Alean plain, gnawing at his own heart, and shunning the path of man.
Isthmean
Mythic hero thrown from his winged horse Pegasus after attempting to reach the abode of the gods, cited as a warning against overreaching ambition.
winged Pegasus threw his master Bellerophon, who wanted to go to the dwelling-places of heaven and the company of Zeus.
Olympian
Corinthian hero, ancestor of Glaucus, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus with a golden bridle given by Athena and used it to battle the Amazons, the Chimaera, and the Solymi.
until the maiden Pallas brought to him a bridle with golden cheek-pieces.
And so mighty Bellerophon eagerly stretched the gentle charmed bridle around its jaws and caught the winged horse.
he boasted to them that in the city of Peirene lay the rule and rich estate and hall of his ancestor, Bellerophon, who once suffered greatly when beside the spring he wanted to harness Pegasus, the son of the snake-entwined Gorgon;
Letters to Lucilius
Mythological hero, character in Euripides's tragedy who praises money and is punished
When these last verses had been pronounced in a tragedy of Euripides, the whole people rose up with one impulse to cast out both the actor and the play, until Euripides himself sprang forth into the midst, asking them to wait and to see what end this admirer of gold would make.