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Bellerophon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Bellerophon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Accounts of Bellerophon's demise vary, but a later version records that he presumed to fly Pegasus to Olympus, home of the gods, whereupon Zeus sent a gadfly to sting the horse, causing his rider to be thrown to earth. |
 | | Bellerophon, who landed in a thorn bush, was blinded, lamed, and ended his days in destitution, but Pegasus remained with the gods. |
 | | Her did Pegasus and noble Bellerophon slay; but Echidna was subject in love to Orthus and brought forth the deadly Sphinx which destroyed the Cadmeans, and the Nemean lion, which Hera, the good wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea, a plague to men. |
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