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Geryon
In Greek mythology, Geryon ( or ;〔("Geryon" ). ''Collins English Dictionary''..〕 also Geryone; ,〔Also Γηρυόνης (''Gēryonēs'') and Γηρυονεύς (''Gēryoneus'').〕 ''genitive'': Γηρυόνος), son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe and grandson of Medusa, was a fearsome giant who dwelt on the island Erytheia of the mythic Hesperides in the far west of the Mediterranean. A more literal-minded later generation of Greeks associated the region with Tartessos in southern Iberia.〔The early third-century ''Life of Apollonius of Tyana'' notes an ancient tumulus at Gades raised over Geryon as for a Hellenic hero: "They say that they saw trees here such as are not found elsewhere upon the earth; and that these were called the trees of Geryon. There were two of them, and they grew upon the mound raised over Geryon: they were a cross between the pitch tree and the pine, and formed a third species; and blood dripped from their bark, just as gold does from the Heliad poplar" (v.5).〕 Geryon was often described as a monster with human faces.
==Appearance==
According to Hesiod〔Hesiod, ''Theogony'' "the triple-headed Geryon".〕 Geryon had one body and three heads, whereas the tradition followed by Aeschylus gave him three bodies.〔Aeschylus, ''Agamemnon'': "Or if he had died as often as reports claimed, then truly he might have had three bodies, a second Geryon, and have boasted of having taken on him a triple cloak of earth, one death for each different shape."〕 A lost description by Stesichoros said that he has six hands and six feet and is winged;〔Scholiast on Hesiod's ''Theogony'', referring to Stesichoros' ''Geryoneis'' ((noted at TheoiProject )).〕 there are some mid-sixth-century Chalcidian vases portraying Geryon as winged. Some accounts state that he had six legs as well while others state that the three bodies were joined to one pair of legs. Apart from these bizarre features, his appearance was that of a warrior. He owned a two-headed hound named Orthrus, which was the brother of Cerberus, and a herd of magnificent red cattle that were guarded by Orthrus, and a herder Eurytion, son of Erytheia.〔Erytheia, "sunset goddess" and nymph of the island that has her name, is one of the Hesperides.〕
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