Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Geryon

    mythological figure · 6 works · 8 mentions · 8 anchored passages

    Geryones · her The three-fold Geryon · three-headed Geryones · triple-breasted power

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Geryones3 mentions

    Theogony (Greek) · The Histories (Greek)

    But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious Ocean, and begot three-headed Geryones.
    theogony

    in the texts

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Mythical wealthy figure of the West with many cattle, slain by Heracles.

    And Geryon, having the most cattle and being the wealthiest and most arrogant of all the men of the West, he both slew, himself and his brothers, and drove off the cattle.
    oration 8
    He took the cattle of Geryon, which were fair, and admonished Diomedes the Thracian to give his horses grain to eat and not men, and convicted the Amazons of being women.
    oration 63

    TheogonyClassical · Greek

    Three-headed son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe, whose cattle are driven off by Heracles after Geryones is slain.

    But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious Ocean, and begot three-headed Geryones.
    theogony
    And the daughter of Ocean, Callirrhoe was joined in the love of rich Aphrodite with stout-hearted Chrysaor and bore 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.
    chapter 75

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    A mythical figure whose cattle Heracles was driving when he passed through Scythia; said to have lived on the island of Erythea in the far west.

    Heracles, driving the cattle of Geryones, came to this land, which was then desolate, but is now inhabited by the Scythians.
    chapter 4
    Geryones lived west of the Pontus, settled in the island called by the Greeks Erythea, on the shore of Ocean near Gadira, outside the pillars of Heracles.
    chapter 4

    De Rerum NaturaHellenistic · Latin

    The three-bodied giant/monster slain by Hercules for his cattle.

    The three-fold Geryon.
    chapter 5
    Or what the triple-breasted power of her
    chapter 5

    IsthmeanClassical · Greek

    A monstrous figure whose hounds are said to have trembled before the infant/young Heracles.

    Since the Isthmus gave to the people of Cadmus six garlands from her games, the glory of triumph for my fatherland, where Alcmena bore her fearless son, before whom the bold hounds of Geryon once trembled.
    chapter 1

    De PallioLate Antiquity · Latin

    Three-bodied mythological monster slain by Hercules, invoked by contrast.

    where Geryon, thrice one in one?
    de pallio