Pegasus

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.4

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Pegasus)

Life events

• Perseus beheaded Medusa, and Pegasus and Chrysaor sprang from her body.(Apollodorus, Library 2.4)
  • With: Perseus Medusa Chrysaor Poseidon
  • “So Perseus stood over them as they slept, and while Athena guided his hand and he looked with averted gaze on a brazen shield, in which he beheld the image of the Gorgon, he beheaded her. When her head was cut off, there sprang from the Gorgon the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, the father of Geryon; these she had by Poseidon.”
• Perseus cut off Medusa’s head, causing Chrysaor and Pegasus to spring forth.(Hesiod, Theogony 139-265)
  • With: Perseus Medusa Chrysaor
  • “With her lay the Dark-haired One in a soft meadow amid spring flowers. And when Perseus cut off her head, there sprang forth great Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus who is so called because he was born near the springs (pegae) of Ocean;”
• Pegasus and Bellerophon slay the fire-breathing Chimaera.(Hesiod, Theogony 295-404)
  • With: Chimaera Bellerophon
  • “She was the mother of Chimaera who breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion; in her hinderpart, a dragon; and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing fire. Her did Pegasus and noble Bellerophon slay;”

Apollodorus, Library 2.4

• parent: Medusa “When her head was cut off, there sprang from the Gorgon the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, the father of Geryon; these she had by Poseidon.”
• parent: Poseidon “When her head was cut off, there sprang from the Gorgon the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, the father of Geryon; these she had by Poseidon.”

Hesiod, Theogony 139-265

• parent: Medusa “And when Perseus cut off her head, there sprang forth great Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus”
• with Zeus (interaction) “Now Pegasus flew away and left the earth, the mother of flocks, and came to the deathless gods: and he dwells in the house of Zeus and brings to wise Zeus the thunder and lightning.”

Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

• with Chimaera (interaction) “Her did Pegasus and noble Bellerophon slay”
• enemies with Chimaera “Her did Pegasus and noble Bellerophon slay”

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