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👥 the Gorgons

  • <span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="11289501" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_11289501">🏺 the Shield of Heracles</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-11352" data-type_id="11352" data-object_id="11309145" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-11352_11309145">🎨 Wooden Chest of Cypselos (LIMC Achilleus 205)</span>
  • Alternative names
    Gorgo
    Sometimes conflated with
    👥 the Graiai
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102059
    PALP
    http://palp.art/browse/gorgon
    Digital LIMC
    https://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/1/080E/lF7suX7oTIuH88fRW=XyCQU
    Children of
    👤 Ceto (d. of Pontos)  👤 Phorcos
    Includes
    👤 Euryale (Gorgon)  👤 Medousa (Gorgon)  👤 Stheno (Gorgon)
    Related Entities
    👤 Ares  👤 Athena  👥 the Centaurs  👤 Ceto (d. of Pontos)  👤 the Chimaira  👤 Euryale (Gorgon)  👤 Geryon  👤 Hector (Trojan)  👤 Pegasos (horse)  👤 Pephredo  👤 Perseus (Argive)  👥 the Graiai  👤 Phorcos  👤 Medousa (Gorgon)  👥 the Sirens  👤 Stheno (Gorgon) 🏺 the Winged Sandals  🏺 the Bag of Perseus  🏺 the Head of Medousa  🌍 River Oceanos (unlocatable)  🌍 Seriphos (island)  🏺 the Double Flute of Athena  👤 Enyo (d. of Phorcos)  🏺 the Cap of Hades  🏺 the Sickle of Perseus 🌍 the Garden of the Hesperides (unlocatable)  👤 Phobos  🌍 Cisthene (unlocatable)  🌍 Sarpedon (unlocatable island)  🌍 the Gorgades Islands (Atlantic Ocean)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.2 📖 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 216-237 📖 Homer, Iliad 8.344-8.359 📖 Pausanias 5.18.1-5.18.5 📖 Hesiod, Theogony 270-279 📖 Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 782-815 📖 Cypria fr. 30 West 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 31 📖 Lucian, The Hall 19 📖 Lucian, The Hall 22 📖 Lucian, The Lover of Lies 2 📖 Lucian, Essays in Portraiture 14 📖 Lucian, The Dance 44 📖 Pindar, Pythian 12 1-32 📖 Pindar fr. 70a Snell-Maehler 📖 Pomponius Mela 3.99 📖 Strabo 7.3.6 📖 Strabo 10.5.10 📖 Strabo 1.2.12-1.2.14 📖 Lucian, Hermotimos, or Concerning the Sects 72
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, Library Homer, Iliad Hesiod, Theogony  Cypria Pausanias Pindar Hesiod, Shield of Heracles Strabo Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Lucian, The Hall Lucian, The Lover of Lies Lucian, Essays in Portraiture Lucian, The Dance Lucian, Hermotimos, or Concerning the Sects Pindar, Pythian 12 Pomponius Mela
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Apollodoros of Athens FGrHist 244 fr. 157a 📖 Eratosthenes, Geography fr. 6 Roller
    Depictions
    🎨 Attic Black-Figure Skyphos attributed to circle of the CHC Group (NAM 12267; Beazley 1009680)
    Reported depictions
    🏺 the Shield of Heracles 🎨 Wooden Chest of Cypselos (LIMC Achilleus 205)
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