A pegasus (also called pegasos) is a winged stallion, mostly colored pure white. Pegasus was technically the proper name of Bellerophon's winged horse, which then became the name for pegasus. Pegasus also carried Zeus' thunderbolts through the sky and supposedly ate ambrosia, nectar, and perhaps the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides.
Legend has it that the parents of a pegasus were Poseidon and Medusa, but other myths say that the pegasus was born from the blood of Medusa's chopped-off head when Perseus killed her. The pegasus had a brother, though, named Chrysaor. Chrysaor was also born from the blood of Medusa's chopped-off head. He didn't become a horse though, but myth says that he may have been a giant.
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Mythological Creatures
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