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| http://www.warlandia.it/asp/articoli.asp?action=mostra&ID=522 Chimera- Pegasus, the Winged Horse |
The main character in the story Pegasus, the Winged Horse is named Bellerophon. He is a noble and trustworthy man who goes through hard times after he meets Anteia. After the long journey, King Lobates send Bellerophone to kill the monster Chimera, so that he will lose to the ugly beast and get killed. However, with Minerva's help he gets to fight as riding the Pegasus. Since Bellerophone got more advantages then Chimera because he was riding on the winged horse, he gets the victory and receives numerous of reward. As he enjoys everyone's respect for him, he thought of himself as one of the Gods and overacted by stating he's got the ultimate power. However, the god Jupiter sees this disrespectful man and strucks Bellerophone with thunder and ends in tragic.
This story contains countless numbers of morals, and there are two main ones that I came up of. But to sum up, the main moral is that always respect the Gods and never look same or down on them. This is shown in the story clearly at the end. In the beginning Bellerophone was a loyal young man who was modest and did right things every time. However, after he won the monster and earned a wife and lived in a nice surrounding, he still wanted to join the gods at the Olympus. This disrespectful action causes his miserable ending and gives disappointment to the readers for totally changed personality comparing beginning and the end.
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