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love and a powerful hero line begins to emerge. However, the end
of Bellerophon is not so glorious.
The smart hero, who thinks about every step he takes through-
out his life, eventually becomes arrogant. The hero, who begins to
see himself as a god, begins to ascend to Olympos, the land of
the gods, with his horse Pegasus. Realizing the situation, the god
of all the gods Zeus got angry and sent a horse fly upon Pegasus.
Thereupon, when the fly approached the flying white horse it drives
Pegasus crazy, he accidentally throws Bellerophon off him due to
Pegasus’ moves to get rid of the fly. Incredibly, Bellerophon, who
fell to the ground, escapes death by chance. However, after that, he
continues his life in a blind, crippled and lonely state. But the anger
of the gods never ceases. First Ares takes the life of his son Isandros
and then Athena takes the life of his beautiful daughter Laomedia.
Only two heroic grandsons Sarpedon and Glaukos remain, who will
fight years later with his son Hippolokhos in the great Trojan War.
This is how Glaukos describes the end of his grandfather,
he hero Bellerophon, in the Iliad:
“…But one day the gods were disgusted
From Bellerophontes,
He remained alone in the plain of Aleion,
ate away from the human haunts himself.
Ares, who can’t get enough of war,
killed his son Isandros,
in battle with the famous Solymos.
Angered Artemis, her reins inlaid with gold,
took the life of Laodameia.
Hippolochus also became a father to me,
I’m marked for being his son.
He sent me to Troy,
He strongly advised me:
I will always fight bravely,
Let me be superior to others,
Let me not shame the lineage of my ancestors,
they are in Ephyra, widespread Lycia
They were the best, most famous people.
I’m marked by this lineage, this blood by being…”
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