Chrysaor

deity earth Greek single tradition · 2

A giant figure from Greek mythology. He is the son of the gorgon Medusa.

↻ synthesized from 2 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Part of Greek mythology, attested in ancient Greek sources.

Relationships

parent of
Echidna
consort of
Callirhoe
child of
Medusa

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Sources

Source passages

“Chrysaor (Greek) – Giant son of the gorgon Medusa”

#4216 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“the Oceanid Callirhoe, which would make Medusa's offspring Chrysaor the father of Echidna. The mythographer Pherecydes of Athens (5th century BC) has Echidna as the daughter of Phorcys, without naming a mother.”

#6187 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001