Pegasus is the famous winged horse of Greek
Mythology. Shortly after its birth, the magic steed struck the ground on
Mount Helicon and on the spot a spring began to flow. The magic spring was
believed to be a sacred place and a source for poetic inspiration.
All longed in vain to catch and tame the creature. This became an obsession
of Bellerophon, prince of Corinth, who on the advice of a seer, spent a night
in the temple of goddess Athena. As he slept, she appeared to him with a
golden bridle and told him that it would enable him to capture Pegasus. When
Bellerophon awoke, he found the golden bridle beside him, and easily captured
the winged horse. Mounted on Pegasus, prince Bellerophon was invincible.
Pegasus carried the hero in many victorious adventures against the Amazons
and the Chimaera (a fire breathing monster). But the young man angered God
Zeus when he attempted immortality and wanted to place himself among the
Gods. As Bellepheron rode Pegasus up to Mount Olympus (home of Gods), God
Zeus sent down a gadfly to annoy the flying horse who threw off his master.
The Corinthian hero fell into earth, lame and blind. Pegasus however became
the honored bearer of Zeus's thunderbolts and was placed among the stars. A
constellation was named after him.
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