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(Greekmythology) A son of Poseidon and Medusa and brother of the winged horse Pegasus, often depicted as a young man, who sprang along with Pegasus from the blood of the decapitated Medusa.
Pegasus alone issues from the neck of the winged and decapitated Medusa,b or Chrysaor and Pegasus at the same moment.c
2002, Nannó Marinatos, The Goddess and the Warrior, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 65:
Medusa embraces a winged horse and a youth who have been identified as her sons, Pegasus and Chrysaor. This interpretation is problematic because it involves a temporal impossibility:76 the inversion of time sequence. The myth, which is as early as Hesiod (Theogony, 270–82), states clearly that Pegasus was born after Medusa was decapitated.
An innovation comes with Chrysaor, an enigmatic figure who appears in myth in multiple forms: the most famous is the offspring of Medusa and the progenitor of various monsters, including Geryon,34 making Chrysaor hardly a heroic figure.
