Creature

Name: Gerione

Alternate Names:

Source: classical

Nature: mythical

Gender: male

Description: In Greek myth Geryon was a three-bodied giant who was slain by Hercules. Dante's Geryon is a monstrous composite creature with the face of a just man, a reptilian body, hairy paws, and a scorpion's tail--the embodiment of Fraud.

Images:

Botticelli, Sandro

Botticelli, Usurers, Geryon

Doré, Gustave

Doré, Geryon Doré, Geryon

Flaxman, John

Flaxman, Geryon

Priamo della Quercia

Yates Thompson 36, Geryon

Vellutello, Alessandro (commissioner)

Vellutello, Geryon Vellutello, Seventh circle