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At nigh it is very charming. You may feel the breath of Chimera .It is on the northwest of the village. Chimera has been spreading horror in Cirali by spouting flame from his mouth.To prevent this, Bellophan ridded on his horse Pegasus -double winged horse- and killed the dragon.To memory of this he devoted a temple for Goddess Athena. According to other story, Chimera is the atelier of iron God Hephaistos.When Perseus cut off Medusa's head, the blood sinking into the earth produced the winged horse Pegasus. Minerva (Athena) caught and tamed him and presented him to the Muses. The Chimaera was a fearful monster, breathing fire. The fore part of its body was a compound of the lion and the goat, and the hind part a dragon's. It made great havoc in Lycia, so that dragon's. It made great havoc in Lycia, so that the king was seeking for some hero to destroy it. At that time there arrived at his court a gallant young warrior, whose name was Bellerophon.
He brought letters from Proetus, the son-in-law of the king, Iobates, recommending Bellerophon in the warmest terms as an unconquerable hero, but added at the close a request to his father-in-law to put him to death. The reason was that Proetus was jealous of him, suspecting that his wife Antea looked with too much admiration on the young warrior. From this instance of Bellerophon being unconsciously the bearer of his own death warrant, the expression "Bellerophontic letters" arose, to describe any species of communication which a person is made the bearer of, containing matter prejudicial to himself.Iobates, on perusing the letters, was puzzled what to do, not willing to violate the claims of hospitality, yet wishing to oblige his son-in-law. A lucky thought occurred to him, to send Bellerophon to combat with the Chimaera . |
Olympos and chimiera
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