Poseidon lay with Medusa in Athena's temple. When Perseus later beheaded Medusa, both Pegasus and Chrysaor sprang from her severed neck, born of Poseidon's divine seed.
Bellerophon tamed Pegasus with Athena's golden bridle at the Pirene spring, and the winged horse bore him through every trial — against the Chimera, the Solymoi, and the Amazons — until the hero's fatal attempt to reach Olympus, when Zeus sent a gadfly and Pegasus threw his rider.
Zeus claimed Pegasus upon his arrival at Olympus and kept him in a golden stable. Pegasus served Zeus as his thunder-bearer, carrying the divine thunderbolts through storms.
Poseidon lay with Medusa in Athena's temple, and their offspring Pegasus and Chrysaor were born when Perseus beheaded the Gorgon. Athena's rage at the desecration had cursed Medusa into her monstrous form.
Athena appeared to Bellerophon in a dream and placed a golden bridle beside him. With it he tamed Pegasus at the Pirene spring, the only means by which the immortal horse could be mastered.
Pegasus carried Bellerophon above the Chimera's fire-breath during their battle, enabling aerial combat that no ground-based warrior could have survived.
Pegasus struck Mount Helicon with his hoof and created the spring Hippocrene, which became sacred to the Muses as a source of poetic inspiration.
Pegasus sprang from Medusa's neck when Perseus beheaded her with the adamantine sword. The winged horse, sired by Poseidon, was born through this act of divine violence at the world's edge.
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