Post by Senbecc on Jan 4, 2008 16:09:18 GMT -5
In the mythical past in Greece, heroes were quite common. These heroes undertook strange quests, sailed on fantastic voyages, killing villains and monsters, saving beautiful princesses in distresses, and fighting in titanic wars.
The Greek writer, Hesiod, called this period the Heroic Age — the time between the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. Here the heroes were demi-gods, who claimed kinship or direct descent to the gods. They were a race of noble warriors, who lived during the time of wars in Thebes and Troy.
Follow the adventures of Heracles, especially the Twelve Labours, as he fights his enemies, whether they were men or monsters. Sailed with Jason and the Argonauts, or follow the fabulous voyage of Odysseus. Fight alongside with Achilles and Ajax, or Hector and Aeneas in the Trojan War.
Heroes I contains information on the heroes and heroines before the time of the Trojan War.
Heroes I has been divided into two sections: Early Heroes and the Golden Age of Heroes.
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Bellerophon was the son of Glaucus, king of Ephyra (Corinth), and Eurynome or Eurymede, the daughter of Nisus. His name was Hipponous at birth. But in the Catalogues of Women, Zeus cursed Glaucus that the king may never have a child of his own. So it was Poseidon who made his wife pregnant, not Glaucus. Therefore, Bellerophon was really the son of Poseidon.
When Bellerophon killed his brother, Deliades, or else Bellerus, tyrant of Ephyra, whom he was named after, he was exiled. He came to Tiryns, where he was welcomed into court of Proëtus (Proetus).
Stheneboea, wife of Proëtus, fell in love with the youth and tried to seduce Bellerophon. When Bellerophon rejected her advance, the enraged queen, secretly went to her husband and falsely accused the youth of trying to violate her. Fearing to anger the gods by killing a guest and suppliant, Proëtus decided to send Bellerophon to his father-in-law Iobates, king of Lycia, with a message to kill the youth.
Fortunately, when Bellerophon arrived in Lycia, Iobates, father of Stheneboea, also greeted and received him as a guest, before he read Proëtus' letter. Iobates also could not kill his young guest, but decided later to send Bellerophon upon a dangerous errand.
A monster, known as the Chimaera, one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, was ravaging the countryside. The body of Chimaera, were part lion, goat and with a tail of snake. The monster could also breathe fire. Iobates asked the youth to kill the monster, hoping instead that Bellerophon would be killed. Bellerophon agreed with the king's request.
The gods aided him in his quest, by sending the winged horse, Pegasus, to him. He received the golden bridle from the goddess Athena. On Pegasus' back, he flew to the countryside and killed Chimaera with his arrows, safely out of range of the fire-breathing monster.
Still determined to have the young hero killed, Iobates send the hero against first the Solymi, later the Amazons. But on both missions, Bellerophon successfully defeated Lycia's enemies.
Realising that the gods must favoured the young hero and he became very popular amongst the Lycians for his heroic deeds, Iobates married his other daughter, Philonoë, to Bellerophon, as well as offered half of his kingdom to him.
Stheneboea having heard the news that Bellerophon married her sister, Stheneboea killed herself in despair.
Though no one gave account about his death, his downfall came when he arrogantly decided to fly to Mount Olympus, home of the gods. For this presumption, Zeus sent a gadfly that stung Pegasus, which threw him off the beast's back. Bellerophon fell to earth, and became lamed from his fall. Bellerophon lost popularity with the Lycians who drove him out of the country.
Name
Bellerophon, Bellerphontes, Βελλεροφοντης
Hipponous.
Sources
The Iliad was written by Homer.
Theogony was written by Hesiod.
Catalogues of Women was written by Hesiod.
Library was written by Apollodorus.
Olympian VIII was written by Pindar.
The birth of Pegasus can be found in Metamorphoses, which was written by Ovid.
Fabulae was written by Hyginus.
www.timelessmyths.com/classical/heroes1.html#earlyheroes
The Greek writer, Hesiod, called this period the Heroic Age — the time between the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. Here the heroes were demi-gods, who claimed kinship or direct descent to the gods. They were a race of noble warriors, who lived during the time of wars in Thebes and Troy.
Follow the adventures of Heracles, especially the Twelve Labours, as he fights his enemies, whether they were men or monsters. Sailed with Jason and the Argonauts, or follow the fabulous voyage of Odysseus. Fight alongside with Achilles and Ajax, or Hector and Aeneas in the Trojan War.
Heroes I contains information on the heroes and heroines before the time of the Trojan War.
Heroes I has been divided into two sections: Early Heroes and the Golden Age of Heroes.
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Early Heros - Bellerophon
Bellerophon was the son of Glaucus, king of Ephyra (Corinth), and Eurynome or Eurymede, the daughter of Nisus. His name was Hipponous at birth. But in the Catalogues of Women, Zeus cursed Glaucus that the king may never have a child of his own. So it was Poseidon who made his wife pregnant, not Glaucus. Therefore, Bellerophon was really the son of Poseidon.
When Bellerophon killed his brother, Deliades, or else Bellerus, tyrant of Ephyra, whom he was named after, he was exiled. He came to Tiryns, where he was welcomed into court of Proëtus (Proetus).
Stheneboea, wife of Proëtus, fell in love with the youth and tried to seduce Bellerophon. When Bellerophon rejected her advance, the enraged queen, secretly went to her husband and falsely accused the youth of trying to violate her. Fearing to anger the gods by killing a guest and suppliant, Proëtus decided to send Bellerophon to his father-in-law Iobates, king of Lycia, with a message to kill the youth.
Fortunately, when Bellerophon arrived in Lycia, Iobates, father of Stheneboea, also greeted and received him as a guest, before he read Proëtus' letter. Iobates also could not kill his young guest, but decided later to send Bellerophon upon a dangerous errand.
A monster, known as the Chimaera, one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, was ravaging the countryside. The body of Chimaera, were part lion, goat and with a tail of snake. The monster could also breathe fire. Iobates asked the youth to kill the monster, hoping instead that Bellerophon would be killed. Bellerophon agreed with the king's request.
The gods aided him in his quest, by sending the winged horse, Pegasus, to him. He received the golden bridle from the goddess Athena. On Pegasus' back, he flew to the countryside and killed Chimaera with his arrows, safely out of range of the fire-breathing monster.
Still determined to have the young hero killed, Iobates send the hero against first the Solymi, later the Amazons. But on both missions, Bellerophon successfully defeated Lycia's enemies.
Realising that the gods must favoured the young hero and he became very popular amongst the Lycians for his heroic deeds, Iobates married his other daughter, Philonoë, to Bellerophon, as well as offered half of his kingdom to him.
Stheneboea having heard the news that Bellerophon married her sister, Stheneboea killed herself in despair.
Though no one gave account about his death, his downfall came when he arrogantly decided to fly to Mount Olympus, home of the gods. For this presumption, Zeus sent a gadfly that stung Pegasus, which threw him off the beast's back. Bellerophon fell to earth, and became lamed from his fall. Bellerophon lost popularity with the Lycians who drove him out of the country.
Name
Bellerophon, Bellerphontes, Βελλεροφοντης
Hipponous.
Sources
The Iliad was written by Homer.
Theogony was written by Hesiod.
Catalogues of Women was written by Hesiod.
Library was written by Apollodorus.
Olympian VIII was written by Pindar.
The birth of Pegasus can be found in Metamorphoses, which was written by Ovid.
Fabulae was written by Hyginus.
www.timelessmyths.com/classical/heroes1.html#earlyheroes