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The Gorgons (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr ɡ ən z / GOR-gənz; Ancient Greek: Γοργώνες), [2] in Greek mythology, are three monstrous sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, said to be the daughters of Phorcys and Ceto.
'forceful') [2] and Euryale (/ j ʊəˈr aɪ ə l i / yuu-RY-ə-lee; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυάλη, romanized: Euryálē, lit. 'far-roaming') [3] were two of the three Gorgons, along with Medusa, sisters who were able to turn anyone who looked at them to stone. [4] When Perseus beheaded Medusa, the two Gorgons pursued him but were unable to ...
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
The aegis on the Lemnian Athena of Phidias, represented by a cast at the Pushkin Museum. The aegis (/ ˈ iː dʒ ɪ s / EE-jis; [1] Ancient Greek: αἰγίς aigís), as stated in the Iliad, is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the head of a Gorgon.
A Gorgon is used as a boss fight in the 2016 game Enter the Gungeon, in the game's second level. The boss is named the Gorgun to fit with the game's style of everything being gun related. In the 2020 video game Hades, it is implied that Dusa, the disembodied Gorgon head serving as the maid for the House of Hades, was Medusa before being ...
Medusa and her Gorgon sisters Euryale and Stheno were usually described as daughters of Phorcys and Ceto; of the three, only Medusa was mortal. Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon [5] until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield.
Legendary hero of the Trojan War, from the Greek Achilles. [1] Achmemrun: Legendary king of Mycenaean Greece, from the Greek Agamemnon. [1] Aivas Tlamunus, Aivas Vilates: Also Eivas or Evas. Etruscan equivalents of the Greek heroes Ajax, son of Telamon and Ajax, son of Oileus. [2] Alchumena: The Greek legendary character, Alcmena. [2] Alcstei ...
Articles relating to the Gorgons, three sisters in Greek mythology who are described as having hair made of living, venomous snakes and horrifying visages that turned those who beheld them to stone. Subcategories