Bellerophon

Bellerophon (Greek:  Βελλεροφῶν; gen. Βελλεροφόντης) is a hero of Greek mythology. The son of Poseidon and the mortal woman Eurynome (wife of King Glaucus of Corinth), he was "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles". Bellerophon was famed for having tamed the flying Pegasus, who aided him in his greatest feat - killing the Chimera, a monster with a lion's head, the body of a goat, and a serpent's tail.

Bellerophon Media

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  Bellerophon, Pegasus, and Athena, a Roman fresco in Pompeii, first half of the 1st century

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  Bellerophon Taming Pegasus, by Jacques Lipchitz. 1977. Columbia University, New York.

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  Bellerophon riding Pegasus and slaying the Chimera, central medallion of a Gallo-Roman mosaic from Autun, 2nd to 3rd century AD, Musée Rolin

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  The eternal fires of Chimera in Lycia (modern-day Turkey) where the Chimera myth takes place.

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  The emblem of the World War II British Airborne Forces – Bellerophon riding the flying horse Pegasus.

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  Bellerophon on Pegasus spears the Chimera, on an Attic red-figure epinetron, 425–420 BC

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  Bellerophon seated on Pegasus slaying the Chimera (300-350 B.C.), National Roman Museum - Palazzo Massimo

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  A Hellenistic Greek mosaic of Bellerophon riding Pegasus while slaying the Chimera, 300–270 BC, Archaeological Museum of Rhodes

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  A Roman mosaic of Bellerophon slaying the Chimera, 2nd to 3rd centuries AD, Musée de la Romanité

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  Veroli Casket panel detail showing Bellerophon with Pegasus, dating from 900–1000 AD.