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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.

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  • NAMA Epinetron Bellérophon

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

  • The-Winged-Horse

    Bellerophon riding Pegasus (1914)

  • FiresChimera2

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

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