Bellérophon

In the Greek Mythology, Bellérophon (in Greek old Βελλεροφῶν / Bellerophỗn ) is the son of Glaucos (or Poséidon, according to the versions), king of Corinthe, and Eurymède. He is the grandson of Sisyphus.

Its name of birth was Hipponoos . It was renamed Bellérophon after having killed Belléros (the name means “killer of Belléros”). Following this murder, he flees with Tirynthe, where he is accommodated at the court of the king Proétos. The woman of this last, Sthénébée, éprend of the young man. Pushed back, she shows it in front of the king to have made an attempt on her honor. Proétos solved to kill the young man. Not being able to put at dead its host, it sends it to the court of his brother-in-law, Iobatès, in Lycie. Bellérophon is carrying a shelf on which figure a secret message, ordering to kill the carrier. Iobatès sends the young man then to eliminate the Chimère, persuaded that it would find death there.

Bellérophon succeeds in way drawing up the winged Cheval PEGASE while taking the advice of a soothsayer: it spends one night in the temple of Athéna; the goddess appears to him in dream holding a gold support, and saying to him that this support would enable him to overcome PEGASE. With its alarm clock, Bellérophon finds the gold support and can thus capture and draw up PEGASE. Thanks to its destrier, he manages to kill the Dream. On the return, it overcomes the Amazones, the Solymes, mountain people of Lycie, and the combatants posted in ambush by Iobatès. This one then gives up putting it at death, giving him even his/her daughter, Philonoé, and half of its kingdom. Bellérophon had several children: Isandre, Hippoloque and Laodamie (mother of the hero Sarpédon).

Bellérophon wanted to then reach the Olympe thanks to PEGASE. Zeus, furious, sent a Taon to prick the horse. Bellérophon fell and become lame, misérablement finishes its life, after having seen Isandre killed by Solymes and Laodamie by Artémis.

Its history is told in Iliade (VI, 150-205) by Glaucos, wire of Hippoloque, of which Diomède required its line.

The inhabitants of Corinth returned a heroic worship to him.

It inspired a lyric Tragédie of Lully, on a booklet of Thomas Corneille.

Sources

  • (II, 3,2).

  • (VI, 150,205).
  • ( Olympic , XIII; Isthmian , VII).

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