Ancient Greek Bronze Museum Statue Replica of Pegasus (176)

Pegasus(Ancient Greek: Πήγασος, Pégasos, Latin Pegasus) is one of the best knownmythological creatures in Greek mythology. He is a winged divine stallionusually depicted as pure white in colour. He was sired by Poseidon, in his roleas horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa. He was the brother of Chrysaor,born at a single birthing when his mother was decapitated by Perseus.Greco-Roman poets write about his ascent to heaven after his birth and hisobeisance to Zeus, king of the gods, who instructed him to bring lightning andthunder from Olympus. Friend of the Muses, Pegasus is the creator ofHippocrene, the fountain on Mt. Helicon. He was captured by the Greek heroBellerophon near the fountain Peirene with the help of Athena and Poseidon.Pegasus allows the hero to ride him to defeat a monster, the Chimera, beforerealizing many other exploits. His rider, however, falls off his back trying toreach Mount Olympus. Zeus transformed him into the constellation Pegasus andplaced him up in the sky. Thesymbolism of Pegasus varies with time. Symbol of wisdom and especially of famefrom the Middle Ages until the Renaissance, he became one symbol of the poetryand the creator of sources in which the poets come to draw inspiration,particularly in the 19th century. Pegasus is the subject of a very rich iconography,especially through the ancient Greek pottery and paintings and sculptures ofthe Renaissance. Personification of the water, solar myth, or shaman mount,Carl Jung and his followers have seen in Pegasus a profound symbolic esotericin relation to the spiritual energy that allows to access to the realm of thegods on Mount Olympus.