Chrysaor
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In Greek mythology, Chrysaor, "he who has a golden sword" was the brother of the winged horse Pegasus, often depicted as a young man, the son of Poseidon and Medusa, born when Perseus decapitated the
Chrysaor, son of the Gorgon at the pediment of the Temple of Artemis in Corfu
Geryon
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In Greek mythology, Geryon was a fearsome giant who dwelt on the island Erytheia of the mythic Hesperides in the far west of the Mediterranean. A more literal-minded later generation of Greeks associa
Chrysaor
…century BCE, where he is shown beside his mother, Medusa. Chrysaor, married to Callirrhoe, daughter of glorious Oceanus, was father to the triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Heracles at sea-circled Erytheis beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Heracles drove those…
A statuette of Geryon at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
Heracles fighting Geryon, amphora by the E Group, c. 540 BC, Louvre
Heracles on the sea in the bowl of Helios. Roma, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, n. 205336.
Herakles fighting the three-bodied Geryon; the shepherd Eurytion and the dog Orthros are already dead. Kylix in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich