Pegasus – Mythopedia Pegasus was an immortal winged horse who sprang to life from Medusa’s blood after she was slain He was eventually tamed and bridled by the hero Bellerophon, who rode him into battle against the Chimera
Bellerophon – Mythopedia Bellerophon, son of Poseidon, was a hero from Corinth He was best known for taming the winged horse Pegasus and for doing battle with the Chimera and other vicious foes
Arion – Mythopedia Arion, child of the sea god Poseidon, was a horse famous for his incredible speed He belonged to the Argive king Adrastus, whose life he saved during the war of the Seven against Thebes
Perseus – Mythopedia Perseus, son of Zeus, was a Greek hero from Argos He is best remembered for killing Medusa, rescuing Andromeda, and founding the city of Mycenae
Chimera – Mythopedia The Chimera was a monster with a hybrid body: part lion, part snake, and part goat The hero Bellerophon tracked the Chimera to its remote mountain lair and killed it with the help of his winged steed Pegasus
Centaurs – Mythopedia Centaurs were hybrid creatures, human from the waist up but with the body and legs of a horse They lived an untamed and brutal existence in the forests and mountains of Greece, where they battled many famous Greek heroes
Medusa – Mythopedia Medusa, one of the three monstrous Gorgons, was a snake-haired female who turned anybody who looked upon her to stone She was finally killed by the hero Perseus, who used her severed head as a weapon against his enemies
Minotaur – Mythopedia The Minotaur was a hybrid monster (half-bull, half-man) born of the unorthodox union between the queen of Crete and a beautiful bull The Minotaur was hidden from the world in the Labyrinth, a giant maze, where it was eventually slain by the Athenian hero Theseus
Sphinx – Mythopedia The Sphinx was a hybrid creature, usually represented with the features of a woman and a lion, as well as (sometimes) the wings of a bird The Sphinx plagued the Greek city of Thebes until she was finally outmatched by Oedipus
Icarus – Mythopedia Icarus, son of Daedalus, was imprisoned by King Minos in the famous Labyrinth He escaped with his father using wings made of feathers and held together with wax But when Icarus foolishly flew too high, the heat from the sun melted the wax, and he fell to his death