Question

In a poem named for this figure, his death by poisoned arrow is compared to the withering of a poppy. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this three torsoed giant from Erytheia whose cattle was stolen by Heracles as part of the latter’s tenth labor.
ANSWER: Geryon
[10e] Geryon’s cattle were scattered by a gadfly sent by this queen of the gods, who hated Heracles for being a demigod son of Zeus. The cattle were later sacrificed to her.
ANSWER: Hera
[10h] In Roman versions of the story, some of Geryon’s cattle were stolen by this giant son of Vulcan, who made them walk backward to not leave new tracks. Hercules killed this figure on the Aventine Hill.
ANSWER: Cacus
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