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This Fragment on Geryon and Chrysaor is a short addition to the remains of Timaeus of Tauromenium, the Sicilian historian of the late fourth and third centuries BC. His works are lost and survive only in quotation. This one comes from a papyrus commentary on a lyric poet (P.Oxy. 2637), whose damaged text cites Timaeus in the story of Geryon's family; it is printed with Diodorus' account of Chrysaor, king of Iberia, and his three warrior sons.
Timaeus had a strong interest in the myths of the western Mediterranean, including the travels of Heracles, whose tenth labour was to take the cattle of Geryon. Published after Jacoby's main edition, the papyrus shows how new finds continue to add to the record of this influential historian.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: FGrHist 566 F 88bis (P.Oxy. 2637 fr. 5 = SLG S223a)). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).