| Type: | Greek |
| Chrysaor | |
| Consort: | Callirrhoe |
| Parents: | Poseidon and Medusa |
| Siblings: | Pegasus and several paternal half-siblings |
| Children: | Geryon and Echidna |
In Greek mythology, Chrysaor (grc|Χρυσάωρ|Khrusáōr, gen. Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Χρυσάορος), "he who has a golden sword" (from Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: χρυσός "golden" and Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ἄορ "sword") was the brother of the winged horse Pegasus, often depicted as a young man, the son of Poseidon and Medusa, born when Perseus decapitated the Gorgon Medusa.
In Greek mythology, Medusa was one of the Gorgons, three monstrous siblings. Medusa, unlike her sisters Stheno and Euryale, was mortal, and was beheaded by Perseus. Chrysaor and Pegasus sprang from the blood of her decapitated body.
In art, Chrysaor's earliest appearance seems to be on the great pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Corfu dated to the early 6th century BCE, where he is shown beside his mother, Medusa.
Chrysaor and Callirrhoe could have also been the parents of Echidna.
In an alternate genealogy from Stephanus of Byzantium's Ethnica, Chrysaor is a son of Glaucus and grandson of Sisyphus, and his son Mylasus goes on to found Mylasa.[1] This ancestry would make Chrysaor a double of Bellerophon.[2]
