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A Roman mosaic of Bellerophon riding Pegasus and slaying the Chimera, 2nd to 3rd centuries AD, Musée de la Romanité. Homer described the Chimera in the Iliad, saying that "she was of divine stock not of men, in the fore part a lion, in the hinder a serpent, and in the midst a goat, breathing forth in terrible wise the might of blazing fire."
The Chimera was a fire-breathing monster consisting of the body of a goat, the head of a lion and the tail of a serpent. This monster had terrorized the nearby countryside. On his way to Caria, he encountered the famous Corinthian fortune teller Polyeidos , who gave him advice on his upcoming battle, telling Bellerophon that in order to emerge ...
Iliad : from the Perseus Project , with the Murray and Butler translations and hyperlinks to mythological and grammatical commentary; Iliad: the Greek text presented with the translation by Buckley and vocabulary, notes, and analysis of difficult grammatical forms; Gods, Achaeans and Troyans.
Argos, loyal hunting dog of Odysseus.; Laertes, father of Odysseus.; Penelope, Odysseus' faithful wife.She uses her quick wits to put off her many suitors and remain loyal to her errant husband.
The Chimera. In the Iliad, Homer tells the story of a fire-breathing monster called the Chimera, who was "in the fore part a lion, in the hinder a serpent, and in ...
Votive offerings for the gods often depicted mythological stories. A round hole on the left rump of the Chimera might suggest a spot where Bellerophon may have struck the beast with a now-missing spear. [2] The first known literary reference was in Homer's Iliad and the epic poetry of Hesiod of the 8th century BCE also mentions the Chimera. [5]
A still from "La Chimera," which was shot on three types of film stock. Grave robbing on land that was once Etruria, an ancient civilization pre-dating the Roman empire, was prominent in the 1980s ...
Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.