Geryones

Also known as: Geryon · Family: Erythia · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.4

Life events

• Heracles slew Geryones, Orthus, and Eurytion while driving the oxen to Tiryns.(Hesiod, Theogony 139-265 · 📍 Erythea)
  • With: Heracles Orthus Eurytion
  • “But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious Ocean, and begot three-headed Geryones. Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns, and had crossed the ford of Ocean and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious Ocean.”
• Heracles killed Geryones for the sake of his oxen.(Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021 · 📍 Erythea)
  • With: Heracles
  • “Geryones, whom mighty Heracles killed in sea-girt Erythea for the sake of his shambling oxen.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.4

• parent: Chrysaor “Chrysaor, the father of Geryon”

Apollodorus, Library 2.5

• parent: Callirrhoe “Geryon, son of Chrysaor by Callirrhoe, daughter of Ocean.”
• servant: Eurytion “He owned red kine, of which Eurytion was the herdsman”

Hesiod, Theogony 139-265

• with Heracles (interaction) “Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns”

Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021

• parent: Aphrodite “of rich Aphrodite with stout hearted Chrysaor and bare a son who was the strongest of all men, Geryones, whom mighty Heracles killed in sea-girt Erythea for the sake of his shambling oxen.”

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