orthrus

Orthrus dead at the feet of Geryon and Heracles. Side A of an Attic red-figure kylix, 510–500 BC. From Vulci.

Orthrus – The Two-Headed Guardian of Geryon’s Cattle

Tom Curley

In the pantheon of Greek mythology, monsters of formidable might and curious origins were no rarity. Among them, Orthrus, the ...