Sisyphus had a grandson, the glorious hero Bellerophone. It was a miracle how good this young man was and his power was little different from the immortal gods. But, as is often the case, from his early youth he had to wander the world far from his homeland.
Bellerophonte was born in Corinth, and at birth gave him the name Hipponah. Grew up Hippon, matured, and was not in those days in the area and far beyond Corinth young man more beautiful and stronger than him. He was the first in all the competitions, and when he was driving down the streets in his chariot, it seemed that God himself had come down to earth.
But one day there was an accident. Hippon accidentally killed Corinthian Beller, and he began to be called Bellerophonte, which meant the killer of Beller. So he became Hippon Bellerophone. After that, he even had to flee his town, because people did not believe that he killed Beller by accident.
He came to Argolis in the city of Tirinth. In this city, King Proit ruled, and Bellerophonte had found a refuge for him. But even here he did not have to stay long. The beautiful young man fell in love with the king's wife, willful Anthea, and began to pursue him. But Bellerophonte did not love Anthea, and did not want to offend the good Proite. So he told Anthea about it. He insulted her refusal of the young man, she hated him and decided to kill him. Anteya came to her husband and told him:
- My beloved God-fearing king, I can not hide from you, what a great and grievous offense to us Bellerophonte. He follows me and harasses my love. Kill him! This is how he repaid you for your kindness and hospitality.
Proite got angry and wanted to kill Bellerophont immediately, but he came to his senses in time. The king was afraid that he might be angry with Zeus, who was the patron of hospitality and punished all those who broke his laws. For a long time, the king thought about what to do with Bellerophonte, how to punish him. And then he called the young man and told him:
- You are so brave and intelligent. It's nice to talk to you. I liked you very much, and I want you to meet my relative Jobat, King of Lycia. He is also a very smart man and you will have a nice time. The Bellerophonie king gave the young man a double sealed plaque on which to write his messages, and the unsuspecting Bellerophonie set out on his way. And Proitus wrote in a letter to Iobat, the father of cruel Anthea, that Bellerophonte insulted his daughter and deserved to die. And he asks Jobat to take revenge on him.
It took Bellerophonte a long time to get to the distant Lycia and finally arrived there. When he arrived at Jobat's palace, the king joyfully received the tired young man from the road and ordered him to prepare a magnificent dinner. Then they feasted together for nine days and became friends so that they could not be spilled with water. Only on the tenth day did Jobat ask the young man what had brought him here. Bellerophonte spoke of Proyth's commission and calmly gave the king a letter from him. Jobat printed the sign, read what was written, and was very upset. And Bellerophonte sat quietly next to him, not even knowing what evil rock was chasing him again.
It was hard for Iobath to decide to kill him. He, too, honored Zeus and was a very hospitable host. And then during these nine days he fell in love with a reasonable young man so much that he couldn't just take his life like that.
And the king decided to send Bellerofont to the test. Iobat had no doubt that no matter how brave and brave the young man was, he would still die. No one had ever returned alive from where the king had sent Bellerophontus. And Bellerophonte had a great feat to perform - to kill the terrible monstrous Chimera, who lived in the mountains of Lycia. Chimera came down from time to time, and where she sneaked through, there were only charred roots of once lush and green trees and black ashes of houses. Few people saw this terrible monster, but they said that this creepy Chimera has three fire-breathing heads and it consists of three parts. It looks like a fierce lion in the front, the middle of her body just like a wild mountain goat, and in the back she looks like a dragon.
And so Bellerophonte went to meet this terrible monster. He knew that he would defeat Chimera if he caught the winged Pegasus. He knew that he would defeat Chimera if he caught Pegasus' winged Pegasus. He also knew where to find Pegasus. The magic horse often came down from the clouds to drink student water from the Pyrenees' spring at the top of the Acrocorinth. That's where the young hero went. Gradually Bellerophonte sneaked up on the wonderful horse and just wanted to throw a bridle on it, as a horse rose under the clouds and disappeared from sight.
He came to the spring several times and saw Pegasus there, but as soon as he got close to him, each time he pushed his hooves off the ground, the wonderful horse was soaring into the air and fleeing on his mighty wings. Bellerophonte would have gone to the spring all his life if the Olympic gods had not come to his aid.
One day the young man came to the spring again, sitting there waiting for Pegasus and sleeping unnoticed. In his dream, the brilliant Athena Pallada appeared to him, giving him a golden bridle and teaching him