Pegasus

Family: divine creatures · Role: winged horse · First appears: Fable 47

Life events

• Pegasus and Chrysaor are born from Medusa’s blood after Perseus beheads her.(Fable47)
  • With: Medusa Chrysaor
  • “and that Pegasus and his brother,[90] fleet with wings, were produced from the blood of {her}, their mother.”

Fable 47

• parent: Medusa “and that Pegasus and his brother,[90] fleet with wings, were produced from the blood of {her}, their mother.”
• siblings with Chrysaor “Pegasus and Chrysaor were two winged horses, which were fabled to have sprung up from the blood of Medusa, when slain by Perseus.”

Fable 49

• with Urania (Pegasus creates the fountain.) “However, the report is true, and Pegasus is the originator of this spring;”
• with Medusa (Pegasus springs from Medusa's blood.) “The fame of the new fountain[26] has reached my ears, which the hard hoof of the winged steed sprung from the blood of Medusa has opened.”

Fable 55

• parent: Medusa “This was Medusa, who, according to some, was the mother of the horse Pegasus, by Neptune”
• parent: Neptune “This was Medusa, who, according to some, was the mother of the horse Pegasus, by Neptune”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.