Pegasus another was at Troezen. Hesiod relates how Pegasus was peacefully drinking from a spring when the hero Bellerophon captured him. Hesiod also says Pegasus carried thunderbolts for Zeus. There are several versions of the birth of the winged stallion and his brother Chrysaor in the far distant place at the edge of Earth, Hesiod's "springs of Oceanus, which encircles the inhabited earth, where Perseus found Medusa: One is that they sprang from the blood issuing from Medusa's neck as Perseus was beheading her, similar to the manner in which Athena was born from the head of Zeus. In another version,
Far-Stepper/Of Wide Sea the dark stories told of the sisters and intent on slaying them. He has been tasked with beheading the young Medusa, and is equipped with a reflection shield, to avoid the girl's deadly gaze. Wasting no time, Perseus attacks the Gorgons and Euryale fights with all she can muster to defend her sister, but is ultimately beaten and wounded by the warrior. Medusa manages more of a fight, but is ultimately killed by Perseus, who tears her eyes from her head before lifting her by the hair and separating the head from her body. As Perseus turns to flee the