Geryon
Family: Greeks · Role: son of Chrysaor · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 35
In Book 1, Geryon is identified as the son of Chrysaor. At Spain, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to drive off Geryon’s famous herd; in Books 3 and 5, Hercules is described driving off the cattle, and their conflict is called “the fight between Hercules and Geryon.”
In Book 10, Geryon is named as the parent of Erythea. After Aristæus, Iberian colonists crossed into Sardinia under Norax and founded Nora.
Relationship record
Life events
- Eurystheus ordered Hercules to drive off Geryon’s famous herd.(Book 4 · Chapter 36 · 📍 Spain)
- With: Eurystheus Hercules
- “Eurystheus ordered Hercules, in consequence of the fame of those oxen in Spain, to drive off the herd that belonged to Geryon.”
- Iberian colonists crossed into Sardinia under Norax and founded Nora.(Book 10 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Nora)
Book 1 · Chapter 35
- parent: Chrysaor “that it was the dead body of Geryon the son of Chrysaor”
Book 3 · Chapter 16
- with Hercules (Geryon's oxen were being driven by Hercules.) “the oxen of Geryon, (which Hercules was then driving,)”
Book 3 · Chapter 18
- with Hercules (interaction) “Hercules driving off the cattle of Geryon.”
Book 4 · Chapter 36
- with Hercules (Hercules was sent to drive off Geryon's herd.) “Eurystheus ordered Hercules, in consequence of the fame of those oxen in Spain, to drive off the herd that belonged to Geryon.”
Book 5 · Chapter 10
- with Hercules (Hercules robs Geryon's oxen.) “and robbing the oxen of Geryon in the island of Erythea”
Book 5 · Chapter 19
- rivals with Hercules “there is the fight between Hercules and Geryon”
- enemies with Hercules “there is the fight between Hercules and Geryon”
Book 10 · Chapter 17
- child: Erythea “Erythea the daughter of Geryon”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.