Editing Geryon (section)

==Appearance==
[[File:Heracles Geryon Louvre F55.jpg|thumb|right|[[Heracles]] fighting Geryon, amphora by the E Group, ca.&nbsp;540 BC, [[Louvre]]]]
According to [[Hesiod]]<ref group=Note>Hesiod, ''Theogony'' "the triple-headed Geryon".</ref> Geryon had one body and three heads, whereas the tradition followed by [[Aeschylus]] gave him three bodies.<ref group=Note>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."</ref> A lost description by [[Stesichoros]] said that he has six hands and six feet and is winged;<ref>[[Scholium|Scholiast]] on Hesiod's ''Theogony'', referring to Stesichoros' ''Geryoneis'' ([http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/GiganteGeryon.html noted at TheoiProject]).</ref> there are some mid-6th century BC [[Chalcis|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 named [[Eurytion]] (son of [[Erytheia (mythology)|Erytheia]]).<ref group=Note>Erytheia, "sunset goddess" and nymph of the island that has her name, is one of the [[Hesperides]].</ref>