Pegasos

pegasos English Etymology From en grc Πήγασος. Proper noun en Pegasus. en w:Jack Lindsay Initiations and Shamans The Clashing Rocks: A Study of Early Greek Religion and Culture and the Origins of Drama London w:Chapman & Hall 1965 254 https://archive.org/details/clashingrocks0000jack/page/254/mode/1up Figures like Medousa and Pegasos wear wings. en w:Emily Vermeule Immortals Are Mortal, Mortals Immortal Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry Sather Classical Lectures 46 Berkeley, Calif.; Los Angeles, Calif.; London w:University of California Press 1979 128 https://books.google.com/books?id=ogQsgpLNWaUC&pg=PA128 0-520-03405-8 Those who went alone fueled only by ambition and a sense of competence, like Bellerophon, were shunted back to earth; as Pegasos, with that famous moral wriggle, threw his human master in exchange for a divine one in the stalls of Zeus. Monsters or sports like Pegasos were sensitive indicators in Greek myth of the status of ambitious man; when monsters stand for death, man may kill them. en w:Timothy Gantz Gaia and Pontos Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources 1 Baltimore, Md.; London The Johns Hopkins University Press 1993 21 https://archive.org/details/earlygreekmythgu0001gant/page/21/mode/1up 0-8018-5360-5 The same time period also offers our first look at Medousa and her family, that is, Medousa shown intact and, at her side, her children, Pegasos and Chrysaor, who will in fact emerge from her neck only after her head has been cut off.