Stesichoros tells the tale of Geryon in his Geryoneis , composed in the sixth century BCE. The details from that myth are the known facts that we have now, and which Anne Carson’s Geryon carries in her Autobiography of Red . For millennia, Geryon has lived that cycle repeatedly until Carson gave him the volition to ch…

In Autobiography of Red , Anne Carson presents us with a modern version of Geryon. In myth, he is a red, winged, three-headed monster, famously slain by Herakles as the hero’s tenth labor. Here, Geryon is still red and still winged but human, experiencing familiar human insecurities and emotions. Geryon is a preco…