Pegasus in popular culture

Bellerophon on Pegasus spears the Chimera, on an Attic red-figure epinetron 425–420 BC

The winged, divine horse Pegasus has been a prominent figure in modern popular culture.

Art

Bellerophon riding Pegasus (1914)

Corporate and commercial uses

Films

A Pegasus is used in the 1932 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon The Winged Horse.

Pegasus has appeared in several films, including the animated films Fantasia, Hercules, and Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus along with the stop motion film, Clash of the Titans, Clash of the Titans the remake version and, as a name only, in Johnny English and its sequel Johnny English Reborn.

In Disney's Fantasia Pegasi are featured during the visualized "Pastoral Symphony" segment, along with other mythical creatures including unicorns and centaurs and in Hercules he is the winged horse sidekick and friend to Hercules, the main character. In Clash of the Titans, Pegasus is captured by Perseus before Perseus visits and kills Medusa the Gorgon. This version, changes the method of Pegasus' birth - although no further details are given, save a comment from Zeus that Pegasus is the sole surviving winged horse from a herd of the creatures, the rest killed by Thetis' son, Calibos. In Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus, Pegasus is the winged horse who helps Princess Annika.. In the film Johnny English, starring Rowan Atkinson, Pegasus, played by Tim Pigott-Smith, is the codename of the head of MI7; in the sequel, Johnny English Reborn, the head of the organisation is now a woman, played by Gillian Anderson, who also uses the codename Pegasus (possibly in a nod to the James Bond film series, in which M was traditionally played by a man but was then played by Judi Dench). A pegasus can be seen on the TriStar logo. A pegasus can also be seen on the Metropolitan Filmexport logo.

Television

Theatre

Written works

Video games

The mythical creature has influenced much music and is eponymous to many band names, records and songs: The Japanese jazz fusion band, Casiopea created an offshoot band under the name. The New Zealand indie rock band The Phoenix Foundation named their 2005 album after the creature. Italian electronic music musician Mauro Picotto also named an album named after it in 2000.

A few of the eponymous songs and bands:

The guitar pickup company Seymour Duncan released in May 2013 a series of pickups for 7- and 8-string guitars, one of which is called the Pegasus, a bridge pickup designed with metal and progressive players in mind. Other pickups released that year by the company include the Nazgul bridge pickup and the Sentient neck pickup, compatible with either of them.[6]

Sport

References

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