Chrysaor
English
[edit]
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χρυσάωρ (Khrusáōr).
Proper noun
[edit]Chrysaor
- (Greek mythology) A son of Poseidon and Medusa and brother of the winged horse Pegasus, often depicted as a young man, who sprang along with Pegasus from the blood of the decapitated Medusa.
- 1855, Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Volume 36, Society of Antiquaries of London, page 59:
- Pegasus alone issues from the neck of the winged and decapitated Medusa,b or Chrysaor and Pegasus at the same moment.c
- 2002, Nannó Marinatos, The Goddess and the Warrior[1], Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 65:
- Medusa embraces a winged horse and a youth who have been identified as her sons, Pegasus and Chrysaor. This interpretation is problematic because it involves a temporal impossibility:76 the inversion of time sequence. The myth, which is as early as Hesiod (Theogony, 270–82), states clearly that Pegasus was born after Medusa was decapitated.
- 2010, Lee E. Patterson, Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece, University of Texas Press, page 120:
- An innovation comes with Chrysaor, an enigmatic figure who appears in myth in multiple forms: the most famous is the offspring of Medusa and the progenitor of various monsters, including Geryon,34 making Chrysaor hardly a heroic figure.