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Heracles: Geryon
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Heracles killed Orthrus and then Eurythion. Heracles killed Geryon and tore his body into three pieces. Heracles then had to herd the cattle back to Eurystheus. On the Aventine hill in Italy, Cacus stole some of the cattle stolen from Geryon as Heracles slept. He made the cattle walk backwards so they left no trail. Heracles drove his remaining cattle past a cave, where Cacus was hiding the stolen ones, and they began calling out to each other.
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Arriving at Erytheia, Heracles had to kill the herdsman, Eurytion and the two-headed hound Orthus with his club, near the peak of Mount Abas. Menoetes, herdsman of Hades, witnessed all this, and went to Geryon with news of Heracles raiding his cattle. Geryon, who had three heads, was ... killed when he pursued the hero to River Anthemus. Heracles then tried to make his home.
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For his tenth labor, Heracles had to obtain the Cattle of Geryon. Geryon had three sets of legs and three bodies all joined at the waist, and his hound was Orthrus the two headed brother of Kerberos. Alternatively, Menoetius, Hades' shepherd, warned Geryon of Heracles' thievery.
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As Heracles travelled back to Greece with the cattle of Geryon, Celtine, daughter of Bretannus, saw and fell in love with the hero. One day, she hid the cattle, and would not tell Heracles their whereabout until he made love to her. Heracles slept with her, and Celtine became the mother of Celtus, ancestors of the Celts.
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In the Underworld, Heracles 1 met again Hades' herdsman Menoetes 1, who had exposed him when he had come to fetch the Cattle of Geryon. This time they came into conflict because Heracles 1, wishing to provide the souls with blood, slaughtered one beast of the cattle of Hades. Menoetes 1 then challenged Heracles 1 to wrestle, but being seized round the middle, had his ribs broken.
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Heracles borrowed the Cup of Helios to sail to Geryon's island in the far west. This is represented in this Attic red figure cup, c. 480 BCE, in the Vatican. Note the octopi.
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