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BELLEROPHON
A krater (mixing bowl) from Campania (south central Italy), red-figure, c.330 BCE, showing Bellerophon on Pegasus, receiving those baneful tablets from Proitos. In the upper right you see Sthenoboea nursing her passion.
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Another red-figure vase, from Paestum, south of the Bay of Naples in Italy, showing Proitos handing the tablets to Bellerophon (ca350-330 BCE). An attendant to the right of Proitos appears to be holding a bandage to Sthenoboea's ailing head. |
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A third version of the scene, from a Roman wall painting (Pompeii IX 2 16, atrium), again with the exchange of tablets. This time, Sthenoboea gazes down from behind Proitos' chair at the handsome, and now unclothed, hero (c.50 CE) |
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Bronze mirror from ca400 BCE, apparently found in Lycia and now in Vienna, showing Bellerophon putting a bridle on Pegasus. |
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An Attic black-figure cup, ca550-540 BCE, showing Bellerophon attacking the Chimaera, with its lion front, goat middle, and snake tail. The figures at each end of the scene have not been identified. |
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An Attic amphora, found in Vulci in Etruria, black-figure, ca530 BCE. It shows Bellerophon on foot attacking the Chimaera, with Athena behind him. Meanwhile, a second figure, identified by some as Iolaus (also the sidekick of Heracles), attacks the Chimaera's tail. |
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A vase from Apulia (southern Italy), red-figure, ca400 BCE, showing another version of Bellerophon on Pegasus, attacking the Chimaera. The presence of the satyr-figure, in a theatrical costume (the fat padded guy at far left) indicates that this myth may have been performed as a burlesque.
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