Bellerophon

(bel-liro-fon.) [Gr., slayer of Pellerus.] (Myt.) A son of Glaucus, and grandson of Sisyphus, fled from Corinth for the murder of Bellerus, king of Argos, whose wife Antæa became enamored of him; and because he slighted her pa ion, she sought to destroy him. He was sent therefore by Jobates, king of Lycia and father of Antæa, on various perilous expeditions, one of which was against the Chimæra, which he succeeded in destroying by the aid of a winged horse called Pegasus, which he had caught while drinking at the fountain Pirene in Corinth. After another expedition against the Amazons, he married the daughter of the Lycian king. [s. 86]