Morals and Lessons in the story of Pegasus and Bellerophon

If you live life long enough, you'll make mistakes sometimes tragic ones.

Morals and Lessons presented in the story of Pegasus and Bellerophon

By: Briseida Quero & Jaimee Le

Persistence Beats All Doubt

Bellerophon:

Tragic Mistake

Refresher:

- In searching for Pegasus, Bellerophon persisted through all the doubt that everyone had said about him not being able to catch and tame Pegasus.

- He also persisted through fighting the Chimaera seeing as the Chimaera was a difficult creature to even be trying to conquer, but he did it.

EVIDENCE:

Bellerophon was generally the son of Glaucus, who was a horseman that fed human flesh to his horses to make them fierce in battle.

- Bellerophon killed his brother, by accident

- He wronged Anteia. This was not purposely as she fell in love with him but he did not return her feelings. Because of her anger and hurt, he had to go through more adventures leading him to conquer the Chimaera, the Amazons, and and the Solymi.

Pegasus:

- Rumored that he had a mightier father, Poseidon.

-His mother was Eurynome. She is mortal but was taught by the goddess Athena herself and was the peer of the gods.

Pegasus was a immortal flying horse,white colored.

He was born when Medusa was slain, he sprouted from her blood.

Anteia falling in love with Bellerophon

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Bellerophon was the one who captured and tamed Pegasus.

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Pegasus helped Bellerophon in his fights against the Chimera and the Amazons.

overconfident

Life Can Be Ruined in Just Seconds

Pride

Moral: Don't get too ahead of yourself .

Loyalty can also

be your friend.

Evidence:

Bellerophon had the gods at his favor.

- Bellerophon ruined his life in just seconds by making the choice of believing that he could have a place with the gods, resulting in him being thrown off Pegasus by the horse himself

egotistical

Evidence (cont.)

Evidence

Bellerophon serves as an example of this. Having the gods on his side and everything was going to well for him. Soon, he had "thoughts to great for man" seeing as he wanted to fly Pegasus up to Olympus, believing he could take place with the immortals. This did not result good as Pegasus threw his rider off.

Pegasus was a loyal friend to Bellerophon seeing always there to help him with his journeys.

Loyalty comes a long way. Bellerophon tamed Pegasus and ended up earning his loyalty. They came a long way.

- Bellerophon started to get overconfident on what he could do based on his luck in the deadly challenges King Lobates told him to do.

boastful

- Having a certain amount of pride is good at times but sometimes it's not.

This moral connects to real life such as earning a friends trust can sometimes be easy at times hard. But at the end of the day loyalty is the major part in friendship.

cocky

conceited

arrogant

WORKS CITED:

Hamilton, Edith. Mythology Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1999. Print.