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Ok so I want to add in Modern Appearances that Geryon is in Dante's Inferno.

" Geryon, merely described in Virgil's Aeneid as a "three-bodied shade" (he was a cruel king slain by Hercules), is one of Dante's most complex creatures. With an honest face, a colorful and intricately patterned reptilian hide, hairy paws, and a scorpion's tail, Geryon is an image of fraud (Inf. 17.7-27)--the realm to which he transports Dante and Virgil (circles 8 and 9). Strange as he is, Geryon offers some of the best evidence of Dante's attention to realism. The poet compares Geryon's upward flight to the precise movements of a diver swimming to the surface of the sea (Inf. 16.130-6), and he helps us imagine Geryon's descent by noting the sensation of wind rising from below and striking the face of a traveler in flight (Inf. 17.115-17). By comparing Geryon to a sullen, resentful falcon (Inf. 17.127-36), Dante also adds a touch of psychological realism to the episode: Geryon may in fact be bitter because he was tricked--when Virgil used Dante's knotted belt to lure the monster (Inf. 16.106-23)--into helping the travelers. Dante had used this belt--he informs us long after the fact (Inf. 16.106-8)--to try to capture the colorfully patterned leopard who impeded his ascent of the mountain in Inferno 1.31-3. "

from <http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/circle7.html>

Should I condense this and also give part of the citation, because anyone who had read the book, should know about Geryon in it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.161.233.2 (talk)

I'd recommend not using that ad verbatim, as Wikipedia doesn't allow the inclusion of copyrighted material (unless it is media, which a different story). I'd say rewrite it, cite it with {{cite web}}, and stick it in. (: Blast ^{[improve me]} 17.05.07 1302 (UTC)

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Uh, this section doesn't appear to be relevant to Geryon... Why is it here?--Mr Fink 04:54, 14 July 2007 (UTC)