#geryoneis

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From Red Meat: Fragments of Stesichoros by Anne Carson

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Geryoneis

The "Geryoneis" is a fragmentary poem, written in Ancient Greek by the lyric poet Stesichorus. Composed in the 6th century BC, it narrates an episode from the Heracles myth in which the hero steals the cattle of Geryon, a three-bodied monster with a human face.

The extant parts of the poem begin with the prelude of the fight between Heracles and Geryon. They include: a council of the gods, which resolves that Geryon is to die, the birth of his cowherd Eurytion and a depiction of his parents, trying to convince him not to face Heracles. The final moments of the conflict are preserved at length: Heracles shoots a deadly arrow into Geryon's forehead. His agony is described in detail and compared to a withering poppy.

XIV. HERAKLES' ARROW

Arrow means kill It parted Geryon's skull like a comb Made

The boy neck lean At an odd slow angle sideways as when a

Poppy shames itself in a whip of Nude breeze

XXXV. GLADYS

He would pretend to be asleep

so he could lean against Herakles' shoulder. The smell of the leather jacket near his face and the hard pressure of Herakles'

arm under the leather sent a wave of longing as strong as a color through Geryon.

It exploded at the bottom of his belly.

Then the blanket shifted. He felt Herakles' hand move on his thigh and Geryon's head went back like a poppy in a breeze

as Herakles' mouth came down on his and blackness sank through him.

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

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love you red love you red wings love you winged red person love you little red dog love you geryon love you ancash love you volcano love you red singlet with white letters that read tender loin love you belugas floating in the moonless tank at night love you maria love you red winged loveslave love you dickinson #1748 love you evil whitman love you lava man love you lava bread that makes you passionate love you photographs love you stesichoros love you red meat appendix love you geryon love you geryon love you geryon

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P.Oxy.XXXII 2617 Stesichorus, Geryoneis? ed. E. Lobel

Publication date: 1967. Author: Stesichorus. Date: First century. Provenance: Oxyrhynchus Location: Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford. Genre: Lyric Poetry. Format: Roll Material: Papyrus

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head;... quiver;... the man once...; ...heart...

Stesichoros, Geryoneis (incomplete fragment s9), trans. by David A. Campbell

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SYMPATHIZING WITH THE MONSTER: MAKING SENSE OF COLONIZATION IN STESICHORUS' GERYONEIS

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