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Bellerophon

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Canonical name
Bellerophon
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Individual
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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Lycia2 observations
·Reported

Glaucus reports that Bellerophon completed his safely convoyed journey to Lycia.

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“Bellerophon therefore went to Lycia, and the gods convoyed him safely.”
·Reported

Glaucus reports that the Lycian king kept Bellerophon in Lycia.

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“Then the king knew that he must be the valiant offspring of a god, so he kept him in Lycia”
Xanthus1 observation
·Reported

Glaucus reports that Bellerophon reached the river Xanthus.

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“When he reached the river Xanthus, which is in Lycia”
Alean plain1 observation
·Reported

Glaucus reports that Bellerophon wandered alone on the Alean plain.

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“when Bellerophon came to be hated by all the gods, he wandered all desolate and dismayed upon the Alean plain, gnawing at his own heart, and shunning the path of man”

Claims

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·Reported

Glaucus says beautiful and honorable Bellerophon rejected Antea, was falsely accused, and carried a deadly letter safely to Lycia.

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“Bellerophon, whom heaven endowed with the most surpassing comeliness and beauty. But Proetus devised his ruin, and being stronger than he, drove him from the land of the Argives, over which Jove had made him ruler. For Antea, wife of Proetus, lusted after him, and would have had him lie with her in secret; but Bellerophon was an honourable man and would not, so she told lies about him to Proteus. ‘Proetus,’ said she, ‘kill Bellerophon or die, for he would have had converse with me against my will.’ The king was angered, but shrank from killing Bellerophon, so he sent him to Lycia with lying letters of introduction, written on a folded tablet, and containing much ill against the bearer. He bade Bellerophon show these letters to his father-in-law, to the end that he might thus perish; Bellerophon therefore went to Lycia, and the gods convoyed him safely”
·Reported

Glaucus says Bellerophon slew the Chimaera, fought the Solymi, killed the Amazons, and destroyed every warrior in an ambush.

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“Bellerophon slew her, for he was guided by signs from heaven. He next fought the far-famed Solymi, and this, he said, was the hardest of all his battles. Thirdly, he killed the Amazons, women who were the peers of men, and as he was returning thence the king devised yet another plan for his destruction; he picked the bravest warriors in all Lycia, and placed them in ambuscade, but not a man ever came back, for Bellerophon killed every one of them”
·Reported

Glaucus says god-hated Bellerophon wandered desolate and dismayed on the Alean plain, gnawing his heart and shunning people.

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“when Bellerophon came to be hated by all the gods, he wandered all desolate and dismayed upon the Alean plain, gnawing at his own heart, and shunning the path of man”
·Reported

Diomed says Bellerophon was Oeneus’s guest for twenty days and exchanged gifts with him.

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“Great Oeneus once entertained Bellerophon for twenty days, and the two exchanged presents”

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·Reported
“Bellerophon, whom heaven endowed with the most surpassing comeliness and beauty”

Passage preview

Book 6 · Passage 13

And the son of Hippolochus answered, son of Tydeus, why ask me of my lineage? Men come and go as leaves year by year upon the trees. Those of autumn the wind sheds upon the ground, but when spring returns the forest buds forth with fresh vines. Even so is it with the generations of mankind, the new spring up as the old are passing away. If, then, you would learn my descent, it is one that is well known to many. There is a city in the heart of Argos, pasture land of horses, called Ephyra, where Sisyphus lived, who was the craftiest of all mankind. He was the son of Aeolus, and had a son named Glaucus, who was father to Bellerophon, whom heaven endowed with the most surpassing comeliness and beauty. But Proetus devised his ruin, and being stronger than he, drove him from the land of the Argives, over which Jove had made him ruler. For Antea, wife of Proetus, lusted after him, and would have had him lie with her in secret; but Bellerophon was an honourable man and would not, so she told lies about him to Proteus. ‘Proetus,’ said she, ‘kill Bellerophon or die, for he would have had converse with me against my will.’ The king was angered, but shrank from killing Bellerophon, so he sent him to Lycia with lying letters of introduction, written on a folded tablet, and containing much ill against the bearer. He bade Bellerophon show these letters to his father-in-law, to the end that he might thus perish; Bellerophon therefore went to Lycia, and the gods convoyed him safely.