Bellerophon.
The grandson of Sisyphus and son of Glaucus and Eurymede, Bellerophon was sometimes also known as the son of Poseidon. After accidentally killing a man in his native Corinth, Bellerophon went to the palace of Proetus, king of Argos, where Queen Anteia (or Stheneboea) fell in love with him. When Bellerophon rejected her advances, she accused him of having tried to violate her and demanded that Proetus kill the youth. Unwilling to do so, Proetus sent the hapless hero to his father-in-law, Iobates, king of Lycia, with a letter recounting the incident and asking him to put Bellerophon to death. Iobates dispatched Bellerophon on several dangerous missions, certain he could not survive. According to Homer, he successfully killed the fire-breathing Chimaera, a monster combining parts of a lion, a goat, and a snake; defeated the Solymians and the Amazons in battle; and evaded an ambush by Lycian warriors. Recognizing that these feats betokened divine descent, Iobates made peace with Bellerophon and gave him his daughter Anticlea in marriage.
      In Pindar’s recasting of the tale, Bellerophon was helped in his battles by the winged horse Pegasus, introduced to him by Athena, who gave him a bridle of gold. Later, he offended the gods by attempting to ride Pegasus to Olympus, but the horse, stung by a gadfly sent by Zeus, threw him back to earth. He spent the rest of his life as an outcast, blind and crippled.