CLAS 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: 50Th United States Congress, Melampus, Amymone

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

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Its founder, phoroneus, decided in favor of hera in her contest with poseidon for divine patronage of argos. Chrysaor and the winged horse, pegasus: chrysaor became father of geryon and pegasus played an important role in the saga of bellerophon (see mls, chapter 26, whe(cid:374) the hoof of pegasus stru(cid:272)k mt. Fou(cid:374)tai(cid:374),(cid:863) gushed forth; it (cid:449)as sa(cid:272)red to the muses a(cid:374)d asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith poeti(cid:272) inspiration: athena invented the flute for medusa, imitating the lament of the two surviving. Flying past the coast of the levant, perseus saw a young woman chained to a rock, threatened by a sea monster. She was andromeda [an-drom"e-da], daughter of king cepheus [seef"e-us], or. Cassiepea had boasted that she was more beautiful than the nereids, and poseidon punished her pride by flooding the kingdom of cepheus and sending the sea monster to ravage it. The oracle of zeus, ammon, told cepheus that he could appease the monster only by chaining his daughter to the rock.