Bellerophon

Bellerophon was a Greek hero.

Mythology
Bellerophon was the first person to capture Pegasus, the winged horse.

He had been exiled from Corinth because he killed one of his relatives and he went to the court of King Proitos in Argos. Proitos' wife, Stheneboia, fell in love with Bellerophon but he declined her advances. After he did so, Stheneboia told Proitos that he had tried to rape her. Proitos sent him to King Iobates and asked that he be killed. Iobates didn't want to kill him himself so he sent him to slay the Chimera. Bellerophon completed the task by shoving a lead-tipped pole down the Chimera's throat so the fire melted the lead and it went into the body of Chimera. When Bellerophon returned to Iobates he told im to subdue to Solymoi tribe as well as the Amazons. He completed these tasks and Iobates ordered his guards to kill Bellerophon but they ended up dying instead.

Iobates realized that he was the son of a god and allowed him to marry his daughter.

Bellerophon died when he tried to take Pegasus to Olympus. Zeus sent a gadfly to sting the horse and it bucked and Bellerophon fell back to earth.

Family

 * Father: Poseidon


 * Mother: Eurynome