Talk:Pegasi/@comment-1023843-20130922033215/@comment-10390252-20141210222322

Perseus also rode the original Pegasus; they were a team until Perseus was corrupted by power. It was Pegasus who inflicted Karma by bucking Perseus off as they were flying up to the summit of Mt Olympus where the hero expected to receive the gift of godhood from Zeus.

As often happened with the classic Hellenic heroes, arrogance was his undoing.