Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Birth of Geryon: Chrysaor and Callirhoe
  Cosmogony / Theogony — monstrous genealogy / Geryon’s origin · Hesiodic — Chrysaor and Oceanid Callirhoe beget three-bodied Geryon
• Beheading of Medusa: Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Hesiodic enrichment (Medusa mortal; Pegasus and Chrysaor from the neck)
• Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
• Heracles and Eryx: Wrestling for the Bull
  Heroes — Heracles / side episode on the Geryon cattle-drive · Apollodorean — Eryx slain in wrestling after a runaway bull reaches Sicily

Places appearing with them

• Abderia
• Assembly
• Erytheia
• Flight-path of return
• Hellespont
• House of Zeus
• Ionian Sea
• Libya and Europe
• Liguria
• Mount Abas
• Mount Etna
• Mycenae
• Ocean stream
• Pillars of Heracles
• Plain of Eryx
• Rhegium
• River Anthemus
• River Strymon
• Seriphos
• Strait of Messina
• Styx
• Tartessus
• Thrace
• Tyrrhenia

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Petrification
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War