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,
Perseus and the Gorgon Perseus and the Gorgon Perseus and the Gorgon is a 1902 monumental sculpture by Camille Claudel. It represents a mythological scene which refers to the artist's own life. The work achieved a great notoriety throughout the years. The work portrays Perseus beheading one of the three Gorgons, Medusa. It represents the moment when the hero has just cut the monster's head. Perseus is looking through his bronze shield, which serves as a mirror, the reflection of Medusa's head in order to avoid her evil paralyzing stare. The work is signed and titled on its base. This is the only large