Talk:Geras

Who invented this god/person

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.

There are no variations in spelling.

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)