Chrysaor

Family: Greek mythology · Role: hero · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.4

Life events

• Perseus beheaded Medusa, and Pegasus and Chrysaor sprang from her body.(Apollodorus, Library 2.4)
  • With: Perseus Medusa Pegasus Poseidon
  • “So Perseus stood over them as they slept, and while Athena guided his hand and he looked with averted gaze on a brazen shield, in which he beheld the image of the Gorgon, he beheaded her. When her head was cut off, there sprang from the Gorgon the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, the father of Geryon; these she had by Poseidon.”
• Perseus cut off Medusa’s head, causing Chrysaor and Pegasus to spring forth.(Hesiod, Theogony 139-265)
  • With: Perseus Medusa Pegasus
  • “With her lay the Dark-haired One in a soft meadow amid spring flowers. And when Perseus cut off her head, there sprang forth great Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus who is so called because he was born near the springs (pegae) of Ocean;”

Apollodorus, Library 2.4

• parent: Medusa “When her head was cut off, there sprang from the Gorgon the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, the father of Geryon; these she had by Poseidon.”
• parent: Poseidon “When her head was cut off, there sprang from the Gorgon the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, the father of Geryon; these she had by Poseidon.”
• child: Geryones “Chrysaor, the father of Geryon”

Hesiod, Theogony 139-265

• courtship with Callirrhoe “But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious Ocean”
• parent: Medusa “And when Perseus cut off her head, there sprang forth great Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus”

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