edit ] Classical sources " Chimera of Arezzo ": an Etruscan bronze The myths of the Chimera can be found in pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheca (book 1), Homer 's Iliad (book 6); Hyginus' Fabulae 57; Ovid 's Metamorphoses (book VI 339; IX 648) and Hesiod 's Theogony 319ff. Virgil , in the Aeneid