Geryon of the Shambling Oxen
The key point in the lost Geryoneis by the poet Stesichorus seems to be whether our hero would prove a deathless god or a short-lived mortal in the fight to come with Hēraklēs. Read more
Geryon
Video—CHS Open House: ‘Mothers of Heroes and Monsters: Althaea and Callirhoe’, with Maria G. Xanthou
We were pleased to welcome Maria G. Xanthou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘Mothers of Heroes and Monsters: Althaea and Callirhoe’. Mothers of Heroes and Monsters: Althaea and Callirhoe Maternal figures are inescapable in the fragmentarily preserved Stesichorean poetry. Two of them, Althaea… Read more