"[Geryon addresses Menoites :] Answering him the mighty son of immortal Khrysaor (Chrysaor) and Kallirhoe (Callirhoe) said, Do not with talk of chilling death try to frighten my manly heart, nor (beg me) . "[Herakles] killed Geryones, son of Khrysaor (Chrysaor). . Note stesicoree (Pap. : The Greek is remarkably clean throughout (although corrections need to made on page 47, line 9 (bis,, and on page 161, 17 lines from bottom), The modern language sections are not so carefully proofed.2 Curtis apparently uses subscripts when quoting a text edited with subscripts but uses adscripts when himself editing or where quoting a text with adscripts. [26] Stesichorus might be regarded as Hesiod's literary "heir" (his treatment of Helen in the Palinode, for example, may have owed much to Hesiod's Catalogue of Women)[27] and maybe this was the source of confusion about a family relationship. Melville) (Roman poet C1st B.C. Carsonclassicist, translator, and writerintroduces the ancient Greek poet Stesichoros, whose "Geryoneis" serves as the inspiration for Autobiography of Red. Aristotle mentions two public speeches by Stesichorus: one to the people of Himera, warning them against Phalaris, and another to the people of Locri, warning them against presumption (possibly referring to their war against Rhegium). . Occasionally there are very thoughtful comments on literary issues, as for example the remarks on the series of dactyls in fragment 1 (page 103) or on parallel structure in Fragment 7 (page 122). It is true that ancient poets were interested in the divisions of time, of the night, in particular (. For he had three crests on his helmet and gave Herakles a hell of a struggle. Boulei diamachesthai Geruoni tetraptiloi (trans. Further Eratosthenes says that the country adjoining Kalpe (Calpe) is called Tartessis, and that Erytheia is called Blest Island (Nesos Eudaimos). . to C1st A.D.) : Ovid, Heroides 9. 0 289 (trans. Campbell, Vol. 9 : The Pythagoreans play a significant role in this manipulation. Geryoneis. Sandys) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) View all Google Scholar citations 470B) (trans. [1.2] KHRYSAOR (Ibycus Frag 282A, Diodorus Siculus 4.17.1). "The tenth labour assigned to Herakles was to fetch the cattle of Geryon from Erytheia (Erythea). trailer "And seeing him [Herakles] coming she [Kallirhoe (Callirhoe)] addressed him [her son Geryon] : Strength wins victory . ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. BUT now the sun, great Hyperions child, "From Chrysaor and Callirhoe [was born] : three-formed Geryon. 0000003051 00000 n With the Sun in the Golden Cup: Pound and Stesichorus in Canto 23. Ezra Pound and Modernism. It is cognate with , means, The birth imagery, vivid and explicit, continues its career in later treatments of the Trojan myth. only a poem's precedents but also its receptionis in the case of the Geryoneis crucial to our understanding of the Stesichorus' mastery of allusion and creativity as a poet in his own right. . The goddess caused them straight, "And after Herakles had visited a large part of Libya he arrived at the ocean near Gadeira, where he set up pillars on each of the two continents. : Article Index. Overview. Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C6th B.C.) . pp. ((lacuna)) Obey me, my child.", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S13 (from Papyri) : . Anne Burnett, "Jocasta in the West: The Lille Stesichorus". The mythical narratives of Stesichorus provide the earliest surviving examples of poetic production in the Greek West. It was originally conceived to be situated off the coast of Epeirus, but afterwards it was identified either with Gades or the Balearian islands, and was at all times believed to be in the distant west. Stesichorus's famous "palinode," a retraction or an apology for offending Helen and incurring her wrath, is at the center of H.D.'s epic text. The "Geryoneis" is a fragmentary poem, written in Ancient Greek by the lyric poet Stesichorus. 1 The present paper makes full use of a lecture entitled 'Stesichorus and the story of Geryon', addressed by Mr W. S. Barrett to a meeting of the Hellenic and Roman Societies at Oxford in September 1968. "Pindar . by the limitless silver-rooted [i.e. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. I published some thoughts about it in the Oxford Classical Text Lyrica Graeca Selecta in 1968, and I now give the detail of the work on which that publication was based, together with the results of work which I have done since. Stesichorus' account. "The labours of Herakles; for he drave to the Kyklopian (Cyclopian) portals of Eurystheus the kine of Geryon, which he had won neither by prayer nor by price. Leiden - Boston - Kln; Curtis, P. 2011, Stesichoros' Geryoneis. : Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. (trans. 0000004696 00000 n to C1st A.D.) : There a crest broke away in a storm, and there appeared bones the shape of which led one to suppose that they were human, but from their size one would never have thought it. [69] Stesichorus adapted the simile to restore Death's ugliness while still retaining the poignancy of the moment:[70], The mutual self-reflection of the two passages is part of the novel aesthetic experience that Stesichorus here puts into play. Indoor & Outdoor SMD Screens, LED Displays, Digital Signage & Video Wall Solutions in Pakistan ", Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. ", Suidas s.v. 191-92. Euripides, the tragedian who dwells on the ruin of Troy and the plight of her female residents, resumes the imagery of pregnancy in unequivocal terms, pressing the limits between metaphor and reality with words such as (see Plotin. I emphasize the distance between words and lines created by the ripped papyri, as well as the distance between the original text and the modern reader. Curtis is cautious about attributing fragments to the poem, but bold in his reconstruction. . But claims for a renewed and rapidly growing interest in translation and translation practices can be substantiated by the popularity of works such as Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red and Red Doc> (both loosely based on the ancient Greek lyric poet Stesichorus' poem 'Geryoneis'), the appearance of translation projects with visible . This chapter considers Anne Carson's work on Greek lyric poets Sappho and Stesichorus, . "[Amongst the images decorating the temple of Zeus at Olympia :] Above the doors of the temple is carved . Gryonis. Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C7th to C6th B.C.) The meaning of his name is unclear. "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 nineteenth century translation imaginatively fills in the gaps while communicating something of the richness of the language: See The Queen's Speech in the Lille fragment for more on Stesichorus's style. to C1st A.D.) : Virgil, Aeneid 6. Published online by Cambridge University Press: [34] On the other hand, the western Greeks were not very different from their eastern counterparts and his poetry cannot be regarded exclusively as a product of the Greek West . Campbell, Vol. His poems are in the Doric dialect and in 26 books. 11 (trans. Geryoneis des Stesichoros und die frhe griechische Kunst. 184 (trans. . He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres but he is also famous for some ancient traditions about his life, such as his opposition to the tyrant Phalaris, and the blindness he is. . This book illustrates how Stesichorus reshaped Greek epic to create a remarkably innovative type of lyric poetry - a literature that was particularly expressive in its handling of motifs associated with travel, such as the voyages of heroes, their returns home, and their escapes. Information about the papyrus, based on Curtis autopsy, is copious and makes a lasting contribution to study of the Geryoneis. "Stesichorus", by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870. : He acts a prominent part in the stories of Heracles. 155 36 0000005778 00000 n All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. On it lived Geryon, son of Khrysaor (Chrysaor) and Okeanos' daughter Kallirrhoe (Callirrhoe). To sum up, Stesichorus is versed in the Trojan legend that underlies the Cyclic and the Homeric epics. The ancients associated the lyrical qualities of Stesichorus with the voice of the nightingale, as in this quote from the Palatine Anthology: "at his birth, when he had just reached the light of day, a nightingale, travelling through the air from somewhere or other, perched unnoticed on his lips and struck up her clear song. Stesichorus. In Greek mythology, Antigone (/ n t n i / ann-TIG--nee; Ancient Greek: ) is the daughter of Oedipus and either his mother Jocasta or, in another variation of the myth, Euryganeia.She is a sister of Polynices, Eteocles, and Ismene. For a rare example see fragment 19, line 1, where in the commentary a generous comment is made concerning Lobels alternative conjecture (pages 91 and 163). Its contribution to the interpretation of the Geryones is very great, and to the understanding of Stesichorus more generally is unrivalled. I published some thoughts about it in the Oxford Classical Text Lyrica Graeca Selecta in 1968, and I now give the detail of the work on which that publication was based, together with the results of work which I have done since. the ghost of three-bodied Geryon. The result is a useful contribution to the growing literature on Stesichorus; the newly edited and re-ordered text is the book's major advance. . . Schol.Ap.Rhod.4.825-31, cited by David Campbell. bitter destruction; and he [Geryon] kept his shield in front of (his chest, but the other struck his brow with a stone); and from his head (immediately with a great clatter) fell the helmet with its horse-hair plume; (and it remained there) on the ground . Stesichorus (/ s t s k r s /; Greek: , Stsichoros; c. 630 - 555 BC) was a Greek lyric poet native of today's Calabria (Southern Italy). Geryones lived west of the Pontos (Pontus), settled in the island called by the Greeks Erytheia, on the shore of Okeanos (Oceanus) near Gadeira, outside the pillars of Herakles. Text, apparatus criticus and translation appear together on the page as much as possible, with commentary following as a unit. ISBN: 978-90-04-20767-7. Gades, now Cadiz] and the nearby island Erytheia. On his way he is further said to have killed Antaeus and Busiris, and to have founded Hecatompolis. 188. Translation into Latin by Johannes Schweighuser. "Vergil on Killing Virgins." In Homo Viator: Classical Essays for John 4 - 5 (trans. . [99], Bovillae, about twelve miles outside Rome, was the original site of a monument dating from the Augustan period and now located in the Capitoline Museum. "The triple-bodied Geryon, son of Chrysaor, he [Heracles] killed with a single weapon. . 2803 (Stes. And many a coronal, wherein were set, As on his journey Heracles was annoyed by the heat of the sun, he shot at Helios, who so much admired his boldness, that he presented him with a golden cup or boat, in which he sailed across the ocean to Erytheia. Stesichorus, 632-556 B.C., online Poems translated into English by J. H. Merivale, and H. N. Coleridge: Voyage of the Sun, The Sacrifice of Tyndarus, The Procession, A Fragment, from The Poets and Poetry of the Ancients, Specimens of The Poets and Poetry of Ancient Greek and Rome by various translators, edited by William Peter, open source online text on Elfinspell [28] According to Stephanus of Byzantium[29] and the philosopher Plato[30] the poet's father was named Euphemus, but an inscription on a herm from Tivoli listed him as Euclides. Additional details concerning Geryon follow Page's account. It's a blending of modern and archaic, mythic and mundane: part queer coming-of-age novel, part reimagined fragmentary poem by the Greek poet Stesichorus. Geryon . ", Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. "I [Heracles] faced unafraid . Jasper Griffin, "Greek Myth and Hesiod", J. Boardman, J. Griffin and O. Murray (eds), Richard Lattimore translation, "Hesiod" Intro. 1970. ", Strabo, Geography 3. He traversed Europe, and, having passed through the countries of several savage nations, he at length arrived in Libya. Genre/Form: Art Geryoneis Dans l'art: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Brize, Philip. When he reached Erytheia he camped on Mount Atlas. Ipse autem in lucum se contulit. Hesiod, Theogony 979 ff. Moved, with firm step, the hero son of Jove. He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres,[1] and for some ancient traditions about his life, such as his opposition to the tyrant Phalaris, and the blindness he is said to have incurred and cured by composing verses first insulting and then flattering to Helen of Troy. Osservazioni e congetture alla Gerioneide e alla Ilioupersis di Stesicoro., Luppe, W. 1977. Referat ber zwei russische Aufstze.. because silver was mined in the region] waters of the river Tartessos in the hollow of a rock.", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Frag S10 (from Papyri) : 39 120 (trans. They fought, and Herakles slew Geryon with an arrow. Knox, Bernard M. W. 0000010384 00000 n In date he was later than the lyric poet Alcman, since he was born in the 37th Olympiad (632/28 BC). They say also that they saw trees here [at Gadeira] such as are not found elsewhere upon the earth; and that these were called trees of Geryon. 0000048844 00000 n . Finglass (Cambridge 2014) Marco Ercoles. Tomus Quartus (Liber XI: XXXVIII). It is common knowledge that Stesichorus vita has been modified so as to serve the particular interests of various ethnic and religious groups; hence his biographical data are the result of bias; the presumed names and the occupation of the members of Stesichorus family testify to the popularity of such a policy within certain circles. P.Oxy.2506 fr.26col.i, cited by David Cambell. ], Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S12 (from Papyri) : Stesichorus was born in Metauros (modern Gioia Tauro) in Calabria, Southern Italy[8][9][10][11][12] c. 630 BC and died in Katane (modern Catania) in Sicily in 555 BC. Paul Curtis here gives us a new edition of the fragments of the Geryoneis of Stesichorus, with English translation and detailed commentary. In Greek mythology, Geryon /drin/ (Ancient Greek: ; genitive: ), is the 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. : The adjective also qualifies the ships with which the horse is so often assimilated. The same quotation recurs in Clemens of Alexandria, who substitutes the word and a detail that subtly points to Athena Skiras in whose honor a festival was celebrated on the twelfth of the month Skirophorion: , , , . . . . Translation into Latin by Johannes . 1 The present paper makes full use of a lecture entitled Stesichorus and the story of Geryon, addressed by Mr W. S. Barrett to a meeting of the Hellenic and Roman Societies at Oxford in September 1968. Suda claims this three-stanza format was popularly referred to as the three of Stesichorus in a proverbial saying rebuking cultural buffoons ("You don't even know the three of Stesichorus!"). ((lacuna)) (crouching) on one side he devised for him . The standard edition of the testimonia (i.e., references to Stesichorus in other ancient sources) is Ercoles 2013. . Stesichorus' Geryoneis and its Folk-tale Origins* - Volume 38 Issue 2. 0000001016 00000 n Further Light on Stesichorus Iliu Persis., Zancani Montuoro, P. 19741976. 0000000016 00000 n Though we should take into account that these fragments are a loose and creative translation of Stesichoros . 2. Translation. 2. Herakles was sent to fetch these as one of his twelve labours. Quintilian[54], In a similar vein, Dionysius of Halicarnassus commends Stesichorus for "the magnificence of the settings of his subject matter; in them he has preserved the traits and reputations of his characters",[55] and Longinus puts him in select company with Herodotus, Archilochus and Plato as the 'most Homeric' of authors.[56]. 36. Filottete tra Sibari e Crotone., Horsfall, N. 1979. On the other hand, Stesichorus said that Iphigenia was the daughter of Theseus and Helen, which obviously implies that Helen was of . This seems to be the key point in the lost Geryoneis by the poet Stesichorus, whether our hero would prove a deathless god or a short-lived mortal in the fight to come with Hrakls. Menoetes, who was there tending the cattle of Haides, reported these events to Geryon, who overtook Herakles by the Athemos (Athemus) river as he was leading away the cattle. The poet Stesichorus wrote a poem "Geryoneis" () in the sixth century BC, which was apparently the source of this section in Bibliotheke; it contains the first reference to Tartessus.From the fragmentary papyri found at Oxyrhyncus it is possible (although there is no evidence) that Stesichorus inserted a character, Menoites, who reported the theft of the cattle to Geryon. Herakles used an arrow poisoned with the Hydra's venom]; and in silence he thrust it cunningly into his brow, and it cut through the flesh and bones by divine dispensation; and the arrow held straight on the crown of his head, and it stained with gushing blood his breatplate and gory limgs; and Geryon drooped his neck to one side, like a poppy which spoiling its tender beauty suddenly sheds its petals. aphikth hieras poti benthea nuktos eremnaas, Sol vero Hyperionis filius in poculum inscendebat, perveniret sacrae ad ima vada noctis obscurae, liberosque caros. Discours et rcit chez Stsichore.. Continue Reading. Demodocus sings how the sons of the Achaeans stormed the city, jumping from the horse and leaving their cavernous ambush (, The Greeks lie in ambush within a hollow wooden artifact significantly called (507) or (515). Campbell (ed.). This monograph focuses solely on the Stesichoros's Geryoneis. Fragment from Geryoneis.In = Athenaei Naucratitae Deipnosophistarum.Edited and translated into Latin by Johannes Schweighuser. The original poem, Geryoneis, followed the life of the monster Geryon leading up to his death at the hands of . lo avevano colpito; tanto da gettarlo a terra." That indeed a daemonic agency could make such a I can't find the page you're looking for", "p.114-5. Scafoglio, G. 2005. Further, the animals choke to death within fifty days, unless you open a vein and bleed them. 14 vols., 1801-1807. STESICHORUS: THE POEMS . Some say that he came from Himera in Sicily, but that was due to him moving from Metauros to Himera later in life. And when I criticized the account and pointed out to them that Geryon is at Gadeira, where there is, not his tomb, but a tree showing different shapes, the guides of the Lydians related the true story, that the corpse is that of Hyllos (Hyllus), a son of Gaia (Gaea, Earth), from whom the river is named. The hero reached the island by sailing across the Okeanos in a golden cup-boat borrowed from the sun-god Helios. 249 ff (trans. ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 1993. He owned crimson-colored cattle, which were herded by Eurytion and protected by Orthos (Orthus), the hound with two heads born of Ekhidna (Echidna) and Typhon. Download Citation | On Jan 1, 2022, Patrick J. Finglass published Of centaurs and satyrs: Stesichorus' Geryoneis and satyr drama | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate "[52] The account is repeated by Pliny the Elder[53] but it was the epic qualities of his work that most impressed ancient commentators,[46] though with some reservations on the part of Quintilian: The greatness of Stesichorus' genius is shown among other things by his subject-matter: he sings of the most important wars and the most famous commanders and sustains on his lyre the weight of epic poetry. 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. [33] It was also a sympathetic environment for his most famous poem, The Palinode, composed in praise of Helen, an important cult figure in the Doric diaspora. IN STESICHORUS' GERYONEIS Christina Franzen The fragmentary Geryoneis is based on Herakles' tenth labor, which en . Gaselee) (Greek poet C1st B.C.) University Printing House, Cambridge cb28bs, United Kingdom . We ask that comments be substantive in content and civil in tone and those that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be published. . [42] Philodemus believed that the poet once stood between two armies (which two, he doesn't say) and reconciled them with a song but there is a similar story about Terpander. Maingon, A. D. 1978. And myrtle, leaves, in showers of fragrance cast, Gaselee) (Greek poet C1st B.C.) Hammond, N. G. L. 1971. . His Cassandra, in a maenadic ecstasy, speaks of the birth pangs of Hecubas dreams, and of the oncoming, Tryphiodorus echoes the Odyssean liquid metaphor, , when he describes how the kings flowed from the carved belly, , I will conclude my study of the Stesichorean. 18. 87 ff (trans. ((lacuna)) by (your feasting). (With these words she opened) her fragrant robe. XII 424425); or as . Fragment fromGeryoneis. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd A.D.) : And a torrent they called the river Okeanos (Oceanus), and they said that men ploughing met with the horns of cattle, for the story is that Geryon reared excellent cows. "The Bulls of Khaonia (Chaonia) which, the inhabitants of Thesprotia and Epeiros (Epirus) call fatted, trace their descent from the oxen of Geryones. Mr Barrett has increased my obligation to him by reading the present paper and by allowing me to make full use of his comments on it. 2506 e 2619)., Lerza, P. 1981. II: 34-5. ((lacuna)) to fight by stealth . , . "He [Hephaestion] recounts that Hera who fought on the side of Geryon was wounded on her right by Herakles. 0000001888 00000 n ", Aeschylus, Agamemnon 869 ff (trans. "The poets who came after Homeros (Homer) keep dinning into our ears similar stories [myths set in Iberia (Spain)]: the expedition of Herakles in quest of the kine of Geryon and likewise the expedition which he made in quest of the golden apples of the Hesperides. Bowra, C. M. (1961) Greek Lyric Poetry. the three-bodied Geryon] to fight at his side, who excelled in both strength of body and the deeds of courage which they displayed in contests of war; it was known, furthermore, that each of these sons had at his disposal great forces which were recruited from warlike tribes. Stesichorus' Geryoneis, a long (more than 1300 lines) narrative poem, preserved principally by P.Oxy. ", Parthenius, Love Romances 30 (trans. The triple prodigy, Geryones, rich in Iberian cattle, who was one in three. ", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S86 (from Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius) : Comments are moderated. 5 : Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. Virgilio e Stesicoro: una ricerca sulla, Tinnefeld, F. 1980. xb```f``-a`e``lb`@ 6v,`-f0le`eK.XPmYJ8 G "Khrysaor (Chrysaor), married to Kallirhoe (Callirhoe), daughter of glorious Okeanos (Oceanus), was father to the triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Herakles at sea-circled Erytheis (Erythea) beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Herakles drove those broad-faced cattle toward holy Tiryns, when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by M. Davies and P.J. . There is also discussion interesting for its own sake, as for example on the use of prepositional dialectical forms (page 132). Bryn Mawr PA 19010. They say that the latter [Herakles of Thebes] penetrated as far as the neighbouring city of Erytheia, on which occasion he took captive Geryon and his cows; and they say that in his devotion to wisdom he traversed the whole earth to its limits . . Mueller-Goldingen, C. 2000. . . Texts retrieved July 2021. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.) : Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana. . With the Sun in the Golden Cup: Pound and Stesichorus in Canto 23., Ezra Pound Papers at the Harry Ransom Center, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2004. The fetching of these oxen was a subject which was capable of great poetical embellishments, owing to the distant regions into which it carried the hero. 3 vols. Campbell, Vol. "Geryones: A proper name. Curtis is cautious about attributing fragments to the poem, but bold in his reconstruction. The Trojans haul onto the acropolis the horse that was heavy inside, (357). They also said that Herakles from his sojourning with Omphale called his son Hyllos after the river. 13 : 1 (trans. Stesichorus, which in Greek means "instructor of choruses," was a byname derived from his . Maria Noussia. ((lacuna)); it seemed to him to be much better . It was because of these reports that Eurystheus, thinking any expedition against these men would be too difficult to succeed, had assigned the Herakles the Labour just described. 2803 (Stesichoros)., Giangiulio, M. 1991. In spite of this, his familiarity with old legends is well-attested as he rehandles themes preserved in the non-canonical cyclic poems and the canonical or Panhellenic Homeric epics. Bowie, W. 2009. 0000003191 00000 n Heracles was commanded by Eurystheus to fetch those oxen of Geryones. and 2803 (Stesichoros)., . The story runs as follows:-- Geryones, the monster with three bodies, lived in the fabulous island of Erytheia (the reddish), so called because it lay under the rays of the setting sun in the west. Contact Us; How to Subscribe ((lacuna)) for if I am by birth immortal and ageless, so that I shall share in life on Olympos, then it is better (to endure) the reproaches . "The city of Gadeira [in Iberia] is situated at the extreme end of Europe . With this task complete the hero herded the cattle into his boat and led them back to the Greek Peloponnese. . [40] His possible exile from Arcadia is attributed by one modern scholar to rivalry between Tegea and Sparta. Sleeps the dim Night in solitary valleys, There is an English translation in the Everyman Classics series (1987) by Faulkes . "useRatesEcommerce": false "Boulei diamachesthai Geruoni tetraptiloi--Do you want to do battle with a four-winged Geryon? ", Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. The Geryoneis Curtis Stesichoros's Geryoneis. 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