Facts about Geryon

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   Orthrus, the two-headed dog guarding Geryon's cattle, was also slain by Heracles during the same mythological raid.

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   A monstrous herdsman of Greek myth, Geryon was slain by Heracles using arrows poisoned with the Hydra's venom during the cattle raid.

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   Geryon's father was Chrysaor, himself born from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa when Perseus beheaded her.

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   In Dante's Inferno, Geryon appears as a monster with a human face, a hairy beast's body, and a scorpion's tail, symbolizing fraud.

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   The tenth labor of Heracles required him to steal the cattle of Geryon, a giant with three bodies who lived on the island of Erytheia.

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