Talk:Geras
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Who invented this god/person
[edit]I have only found mention of Geras as a place, of course, but as a person in a few sources (which I will cite), but never as a god or any being other than historical/fictional human.
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I have searched every source this article cited. I did not find a god named Geras.
None of the following books mentions Geras (as a god, human, or any other entity) :
- The Oxford Classical Dictionary: The Ultimate Reference Work On The Classical World, Third Edition - Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (NOTE: including the preface, etc. this book is 1,700 + pages and has glosses and full bios of hundreds of gods/goddesses, fictional humans as well as historical humans.)
- The Penguin Dictionary Of Classical Mythology - Pierre Grimal
- Oxford Dictionary Of World Mythology - Arthur Cotterell
- Dictionary Of Classical Mythology - J. E. Zimmerman
- The Oxford Dictionary Of Classical Myth And Religion - Simon Price and Emily Kearns
- The Oxford Companion To World Mythology - David Leeming
- The Harper Collins Dictionary Of Religion - Jonathan Z. Smith, William Scott Green, and The American Academy Of Religion
- Bulfinch's Mythology - Thomas Bulfinch
I did find these few mentions of a man named Geras:
- Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) (English) (Greek, ed. B. Niese) book 2, section 176: ... The other, Benjamin, had ten sons - Bolau, Bacchar, Asabel, Geras, Naaman , Jes, Ros, Momphis, Opphis, Arad . These
- Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) (English) (Latin, ed. F. Krohn) book 10, chapter 13: ... to and fro, he threw down the wall of Cadiz. Geras of Chalcedon was the first to make a wooden. . . .
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (ed. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin) (English) entry aries-cn: ... Ceras of Chalcedon, but he too appears in Athenaeus as Geras the Carthaginian. . . .
Also:
Flavius Josephus also mentions Geras the place, here:
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) (English) (Greek, ed. B. Niese) book 4, section 476: ... NERO, HE CHANGED HIS INTENTIONS. AS ALSO CONCERNING SIMON OF GERAS.
My conclusion:
This god was completely fabricated by taking a picture of a character that isn't as well known as others. Smartstocks (talk) 20:58, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
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