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Real Name |
Chrysaor |
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First Appearance |
Greek Myth |
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Created by |
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Origin[]
In Greek mythology, Chrysaor was the brother of the winged horse Pegasus, often depicted as a young man, the son of Poseidon and Medusa, born when Perseus decapitated the Gorgon Medusa. While Khrysaor was usually described as a giant but, at times, may have been envisaged as a winged-boar.
Chrysaor, married to Callirrhoe, daughter of glorious Oceanus, was father to the triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Heracles at sea-circled Erytheis beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Heracles drove those broad-faced cattle toward holy Tiryns, when he crossed the stream of Oceanus and had killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Oceanus.
Chrysaor and Callirrhoe may have also been the parents of Echidna.
In an alternate genealogy from Stephanus of Byzantium's Ethnica, Chrysaor is a son of Glaucus and grandson of Sisyphus, and his son Mylasus goes on to found Mylasa. This ancestry would make Chrysaor a double of Bellerophon.
Public Domain Appearances[]
All published appearances of Chrysaor from before January 1, 1930 are public domain in the US.
Some notable appearances are listed below:
Public Domain Literary Appearances[]
- Theogony
- Greek Lyric III Stesichorus, Fragments
- The Library
- Alexandra
- The Library of History
- Dionysiaca
- Fabulae
- Metamorphoses