Bellerophon

Family: Lycians · Role: hero · First appears: BOOK VI

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Bellerophon)

Life events

Bellerophon kills the Chimaera, defeats the Solymi and Amazons, and destroys an ambush.(BOOK VI · 📍 Lycia)
- “but Bellerophon slew her, for he was guided by signs from heaven. He next fought the far-famed Solymi”
The Lycian king gives Bellerophon his daughter, equal royal honour, and the finest land in Lycia.(BOOK VI · 📍 Lycia)
- “so he kept him in Lycia, gave him his daughter in marriage, and made him of equal honour in the kingdom with himself”

child: Isander (Bellerophon is Isander's father.) “The king’s daughter bore Bellerophon three children, Isander, Hippolochus, and Laodameia.”
child: Hippolochus (Bellerophon is Hippolochus's father.) “The king’s daughter bore Bellerophon three children, Isander, Hippolochus, and Laodameia.”
child: Laodameia (Bellerophon is Laodameia's father.) “The king’s daughter bore Bellerophon three children, Isander, Hippolochus, and Laodameia.”
with Antea (Antea attempted to seduce Bellerophon.) “For Antea, wife of Proetus, lusted after him, and would have had him lie with her in secret”
enemies with Proetus (Proetus sought Bellerophon's destruction.) “But Proetus devised his ruin, and being stronger than he, drove him from the land of the Argives”
friends with Oeneus (Diomed calls Bellerophon an old friend of his father's house.) “Great Oeneus once entertained Bellerophon for twenty days, and the two exchanged presents.”
parent: Glaucus son of Sisyphus (Glaucus is Bellerophon's father.) “and had a son named Glaucus, who was father to Bellerophon”

Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.