Prohászka László: Equestrian Statues - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)
Little Pegasus tageous and neither is its position, as a several-metre tall statue cannot look its best between the grandstand and the racing track. After Kincsem park, the next stop should now be Óbuda. It was in the third district here that, at the corner of San Marco utca and Reménység utca, the statue Little Pegasus by István Lisztes was erected in 1983. The horse stands on a plain pediment with outstretched legs, raising its head unnaturally to the sky. A little wing above each of its front feet indicates that what the artist sculpted here is the Pegasus of Greek mythology, or the symbol of poetry and inspiration in later ages. Seated on its back is Belle- rophontes, the youth who wanted to ride Pegasus up to mount Olympus. His bold enterprise, however, provoked the anger of Zeus, who sent madness on the soaring horse, which then shook its rider off its back. Belle- rophontes fell back on the earth and, having fallen head first, went insane. He would roam the earth in his de57
