CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Aegeus, Sciron, Bota Bag
22 Oct 2012
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Sent on a task as punishment for arrogance (often involving monsters). Friends with king proetus, proteus" wife tried to seduce bellerophon. Rejected, wife lied and accused bellerophon of trying to seduce her. Proetus sends b to wife"s father iobates (he didn"t want to deal with killing b), father didn"t want to either. Iobates sends him to kill chimaera, demon god that resembles a dragon. Goddess (?) informs him that he will need the help of pegasus, and how to tame pegasus. Successfully kills chimaera, off to conquer amazons. Returns to iobates after successful, reads letter and explains original problem. Iobates knows his daughter is capable of this, gives b another daughter as a wife and gives him position of power. Tries to fly to heaven on pegasus, gets bucked off and dies. Locked daughter in tower so she couldn"t have a son, however she was impregnated by zeus. Locks perseus and danae in chest, found by fisherman.
