In Greek myth, the stallion was born after Pegasus killed Medusa, and then headed up to Olympus to serve Zeus. Later, Pegasus was caught by a Greek hero, Bellerophon, and helped to defeat the Chimera.

Bellerophon and Pegasus, The Twelve Tasks of Hercules, Pegasus and Gorgon, The Odyssey, and More Myths and a Guide to the Gods. If you have not read any Greek mythology as yet, this book would be ...

Pegasus has also been depicted on Greek coins minted in the fourth century ... tale that did not end up so well involved a youth named Bellerophon, who was assigned the unenviable task of slaying ...

It was defeated in Greek myth by a hero named Bellerophon, but what's interesting to note is that according to Homer's poems, a chimera is also noted to be a creature of "divine origin." ...

A 1,600-year-old Roman mosaic unearthed in Boxford in West Berkshire is "the most exciting mosaic discovery made in Britain in the last 50 years", archaeologists have said. The mosaic dates from ...

Bellerophon and Pegasus, The Twelve Tasks of Hercules, Pegasus and Gorgon, The Odyssey, and More Myths and a Guide to the Gods. If you have not read any Greek mythology as yet, this book would be ...