Bellerophon
mythological figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
a Bellerophon · noble Bellerophon · 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.
’ The king was angered, but shrank from killing Bellerophon, so he sent him to Lycia bearing baneful signs [ sêmata], written inside a folded tablet and containing much ill against the bearer.
Great Oeneus once entertained Bellerophon for twenty days, and the two exchanged presents.
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.
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.