Editing Manticore (section)

== In fiction ==
[[Dante Alighieri]], in his ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'', depicted the mythical [[Geryon]] as having a similar appearance to a manticore, following Pliny's description where it has the face of an honest man, the body of a [[wyvern]], the paws of a lion, and the stinger of a scorpion at the end of its tail.<ref>{{Cite book|title=La Divina commedia di Dante Alighieri|last1=Dante Alighieri|last2=Grandgent|first2=C. H. |date=1933|publisher=D.C. Heath and Co.|location=Boston; New York|language=it|quote=Dante's image was profoundly modified, however, by Pliny's description – followed by Solinus – of a strange beast called Mantichora (''Historia Naturalis'', VIII, 30) which has the face of a man, the body of a lion, and a tail ending in a sting like a scorpion's|oclc = 1026178}}</ref>