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Geryon

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Geryon (jĕr`ēən, jərĭ`ən), in Greek mythology, three-bodied monster who, with his dog Orthrus, watched over a great herd of cattle. He and Orthrus were killed by Hercules when, as his 10th labor, he stole the cattle.
Geryon
celebrated monster with three united bodies or three heads. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]
See : Monsters


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Of the classical canali around the 'Eye of Mars', only Geryon was dark.
Olson is not the only such adventurer: one Italian physicist reported in the journal Nature that the great poet Dante had described, 350 years in advance, the Galilean principle of invariance (check it out in Canto XVII of Inferno, the bit where Dante and Virgil board the monster Geryon for an aerial tour of one circle of hell).
 
 
 
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