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==Offspring== {{blockquote|Chrysaor, married to [[Callirrhoe (Oceanid)|Callirrhoe]], daughter of glorious [[Oceanus]], was father to the triple-headed [[Geryon]], but Geryon was killed by the great strength of [[Heracles]] at sea-circled [[Erytheis]] beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Heracles drove those broad-faced cattle toward holy [[Tiryns]], when he crossed the stream of Oceanus and had killed [[Orthrus|Orthos]] and the oxherd [[Eurytion]] out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Oceanus. :β[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' 287}} Chrysaor and Callirrhoe may have also been the parents of [[Echidna (mythology)|Echidna]].<ref>Hesiod, ''Theogony'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D270 270-300]. Though [[Herbert Jennings Rose]] says simply that it is "not clear which parents are meant", [[Apostolos Athanassakis|Athanassakis]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=cvSiWE0KQsYC&pg=PA44 p. 44], says that Phorcys and Ceto are the "more likely candidates for parents of this hideous creature who proceeded to give birth to a series of monsters and scourges". The problem arises from the ambiguous referent of the pronoun "she" in line 295 of the ''Theogony''. While some have read this "she" as referring to Callirhoe (e.g. Smith [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DE%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dechidna-bio-1 "Echidna"]; Morford, p. 162), according to Clay, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2etBN0w0NGUC&pg=PA159 p. 159 n. 32], "the modern scholarly consensus" reads Ceto, see for example Gantz, p. 22; Caldwell, pp. 7, 46 295β303; Grimal, "Echidna" p. 143.</ref> In an alternate genealogy from [[Stephanus of Byzantium]]'s ''Ethnica'', Chrysaor is a son of [[Glaucus of Corinth|Glaucus]] and grandson of [[Sisyphus]], and his son Mylasus goes on to found [[Milas|Mylasa]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bean|first=George Ewart|title=Turkey beyond the Meander|publisher=John Murray Publishers Ltd|year=1989|isbn=978-0-7195-4663-1|location=London}}</ref> This ancestry would make Chrysaor a double of [[Bellerophon]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kerenyi|first=Karl|title=The Heroes of the Greeks|publisher=Thames and Hudson|year=1959|location=London|pages=80}}</ref>
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