25- Bellerophon

All you need is a flying horse, a false accusation and a fear of accidental immodesty in women to get a pretty interesting story... That's the tale of Bellerophon and his sidekick Pegasus! But for all his questing and Perseus-style protagonist energy, pride comes before a fall... Sources for this episode: Babbitt, F. C. (editor) (1931), Plutarch's Mulierum virtutes. London and Cambridge, Massachusetts: William Heinemann, Ltd. and Harvard University Press. Accessed via Perseus Digital Library (online) (Accessed 22/04/2024). Cavendish, R. (editor) (1998), Mythology: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Twickenham: Tiger Books International PLC. Choniates, N. (1984), O City of Byzantium, Annals of Niketas Choniates. Translated by Harry J. Magoulias. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Cox, B. and Cohen, A. (2013), Wonders of Life. London: HarperCollins Publishers. The Editors, Encylopedia Britannica (2024), Mount Olympus (online) (Accessed 22/04/2024). Evelyn-White, H. G. (1943), Hesiod: The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. London: William Heinemann Ltd. Frazer, J. G. (1921), Apollodorus: The Library (Volume I). London: William Heinemann. Guerber, H. A. (1929), The Myths of Greece & Rome: Their Stories Signification and Origin. London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. Murray, A. T. (1954), Homer The Iliad, with an English Translation (Volume II).  Plescia, J. B. (2004), Morphometric properties of Martian volcanoes. Journal of Geophysical Research 109: e03003. Sheldon, F. A. S. (1816), History of the heathen gods, and heroes of antiquity, to which is added an original translation of the battle of the gods and giants. The whole newly arranged, corrected and enlarged, with the addition of several original and valuable articles. Boston: Isaiah Thomas. Wheelwright, C. A. (1844), Pindar. New York: Harper & Brothers. Worthen, T. D. (1995), The Pleiades and Hesperides: Finding Parity with an Astronomical Key. Vistas in Astronomy 39: 539-545. Additional audio used for this episode: AkkordGliss harp music, public domain, used unchanged in first instance and reversed in the second. Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AkkordGliss.ogg (Accessed 28/04/2024).