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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Bellerophon didn't ride Pegasus

For the record, this is, according to the wiki, how things did NOT take place:

"The Lycian seer Polyeidos told

Bellerophon that he would have need

of Pegasus. To obtain the services of

the untamed winged horse, Polyeidos told

Bellerophon to sleep in the temple of Athena. While

Bellerophon slept, he dreamed that Athena

set a golden bridle beside him, saying

---- "Sleepest thou, prince of the house of Aiolos?
---- Come, take this charm for the steed and show it
---- to the Tamer thy father as thou makest sacrifice to
---- him of a white bull."[11]"

"It was there when he awoke. Bellerophon had

to approach Pegasus while it drank from a well; Polyeidos

told him which well—the never-failing Pirene on the

citadel of Corinth, the city of Bellerophon's birth."

"However, other accounts say that Athena brought

Pegasus already tamed and bridled, or that Poseidon

the horse-tamer, secretly the father of Bellerophon,

brought Pegasus, as Pausanias understood.[12]"


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Grice would need different subscripts for the different versions, I assume.

The wiki continues:

"Bellerophon mounted his steed and flew off to where

the Chimera was said to dwell."

--- and then I woke up.

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