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Bellerophon | The hero who killed the Chimera |
Poseidon | Bellerophon's father |
Athena | She came to Bellerophon in a dream and pointed him to the golden reins used to harness the Pegasus |
Corinth | Originally Bellerophon was a citizen of this city but was thrown out because he commited a murder |
Tiryns | Neighboring city of Corinth where Bellerophon went after being exiled from Corinth |
Proteus | King of Tiryns and husband of Anteia; sent Bellerophon to Lycia with a letter for Iobates |
Anteia | Also know as Stheneboea; Proteuss wife who tries to seduce Bellerophon |
Lycia | The city where Bellerophon was sent by Proteus to deliver a letter to king Iobates. The letter told Iobates to kill Bellerophon |
Iobates | King of Lycia who tried to do away with Bellerophon by sending him after the Chimera |
Neptune | father of Pegasus by way of Medusa |
Pegasus | offspring of Poseidon and Medusa; Bellerophons flying horse |
Chimaera | Bellerophon had to kill this fire-breathing monster with three heads: one of a lion, a goat, and a snake |
Solymi | a tribe that Iobates sent Bellerophon to kill in the hopes that he would lose and die |
Amazons | a tribe of women that Iobates sent Bellerophon to kill in the hopes that he would lose and die |
Jupiter | sent a gadfly to sting Pegasus and throw Bellerophon of him |