♠ Hesiod, Theogony 287-94
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. Greek Text
♠ Hesiod, Theogony 981-83
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. Greek Text
London, British Museum A 487: Protocorinthian pyxis with Herakles and Geryoneus
Details from British Museum
Samos, Vathy Museum B 2518: bronze pectoral with Herakles and Geryoneus
Whole view and details from K. Tsakos and M. Viglaki-Sofianou, Samos: The Archaeological Museums (2012)
Olympia, Archaeological Museum B 1975: bronze shield-band relief with Herakles and Geryoneus
E. Kunze, Archaische Schildbänder. Olympische Forschungen 2 (1950) pl. 30
Delphi, Museum 4479: bronze shield-band relief with Herakles and Geryoneus
Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, January 2021
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