Chrysaor

English right|thumb|Chrysaor depicted in a pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Corfu Alternative forms en Khrysaor Etymology Borrowed from en grc Χρυσάωρ. Proper noun en 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. en 1855 Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Volume 36 w:Society of Antiquaries of London https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ApwhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA59&dq=%22Chrysaor%22%7C%22Khrysaor%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3sp-Dx8n-AhUsFLkGHfP2DPIQ6AF6BAhVEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Chrysaor%22%7C%22Khrysaor%22&f=false 59 Pegasus alone issues from the neck of the winged and decapitated Medusa,b or Chrysaor and Pegasus at the same moment.c en 2002 Nanno Marinatos Nannó Marinatos The Goddess and the Warrior Taylor & Francis (Routledge) https://books.google.com.au/books?id=N-yAAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65&dq=%22Chrysaor%22%7C%22Khrysaor%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3sp-Dx8n-AhUsFLkGHfP2DPIQ6AF6BAhgEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Chrysaor%22%7C%22Khrysaor%22&f=false 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. en 2010 Lee E. Patterson Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece w:University of Texas Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=24JRAeGc5xAC&pg=PA120&dq=%22Chrysaor%22%7C%22Khrysaor%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3sp-Dx8n-AhUsFLkGHfP2DPIQ6AF6BAhqEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Chrysaor%22%7C%22Khrysaor%22&f=false 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. Related terms en Chrysaorian Translations mythological brother of Pegasus French: fr Chrysaor m German: de Chrysaor m Italian: it