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]"
---
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.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
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