HMS Bellerophon (1786) Admiralty at the time, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, had apparently selected the name from Lemprière's Classical Dictionary, which he kept on his desk. The recently ordered 74-gun ship was thereafter to be named after the Greek warrior Bellerophon who rode the winged horse Pegasus and slew the monster Chimera. The pronunciation proved difficult for the ordinary sailors of the period, and she was widely known by variants, most commonly "Billy Ruffian" or "Billy Ruff'n", although "Belly Ruff One" appears in a satirical 1810 print by Thomas Rowlandson, and "Bellyruffron" in the novel "Poor Jack" by Frederick Marryat. She
Chimera (Dungeons & Dragons) Ed Greenwood. This edition of the "D&D" game included its own version of the chimera, in the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set" (1977), and "Expert Set" (1981 & 1983). The chimera was also later featured in the "Dungeons & Dragons Game" set (1991), the "Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia" (1991), and the "Classic Dungeons & Dragons Game" set (1994). The undead chimera appears in the module "Saga of the Shadow Lord" (1986). The chimera and gorgimera appear first in the "Monstrous Compendium Volume One" (1989), and are reprinted in the "Monstrous Manual" (1993). The chimera appears in the "Monster Manual"