person
Bellerophon
also: Βελλεροφόντης
Glaucus's grandfather, hero of an inset tale in Book 6: exiled from Argos on a false charge, sent to Lycia bearing a folded tablet of 'baneful signs,' and there proved his innocence by killing the Chimaera and other foes.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §6.145 Bellerophon
Glaucus's grandfather; his story, told in Book 6, of exile from Argos on a false charge, trial by monstrous tasks in Lycia, and eventual fall from favor, is one of the poem's great inset tales.