the ehoie of mestra closes with her returning to athens to care for her father, but the poet's attention stays with sisyphus, as he and his son are the male subjects of the ehoie of eurynome which immediately follows. she was wise and beautiful, having been taught womanly arts by athena. sisyphus attempted to cheat her of her cattle, but zeus intervened. although he did not get what he was after, sisyphus did accomplish with eurynome what he could not with mestra: a marriage for glaucus. the gods again got in the way, though, and she bore bellerophontes to poseidon, who gave his son the winged horse pegasus with which bellerophontes slew the chimera. in the "iliad" this task was presented as the order of proetus' father-in-law iobates, and in the "catalogue" it appears to be followed immediately by the marriage of bellerophontes and a daughter of the lycian king.