Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Cedalion.
The gallery
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin, 1658
Poussin's Met landscape for the Metropolitan Museum: the Lemnian guide Cedalion rides on blind Orion's shoulders toward the dawn that will heal the hunter's sight — Cedalion as the small figure who steers the giant.
In play
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Cedalion
Hephaestus' servant on Lemnos who guides blinded Orion to the sunrise — Hyginus' astronomer-myth of restored sight.
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Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin
The painting that made Cedalion visible to modern viewers — Orion as a walking mountain, the guide perched on his shoulders.
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Orion (mythology)
The blinded hunter who carries Cedalion to the east — Cedalion's fame is almost entirely this episode.