2023年3月8日 · The Gorgons were three monstrous sisters who lived at the edge of the world; they are perhaps best remembered for their snake hair and fearsome appearance. Two of the Gorgons were immortal, but the third—Medusa—was mortal and …

2023年3月11日 · Depictions of this Gorgon head were often believed to be “apotropaic,” meaning they could ward off evil. By the fifth century BCE, however, Medusa and the Gorgons were increasingly depicted as beautiful women in the visual arts as in literature. Gorgon head on terracotta tile, South Italy (c. 540 BC). Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Family

2023年7月3日 · The king thought that Perseus would be killed on his mission, since Medusa was a terrible Gorgon whose gaze turned people to stone. But Perseus had considerable help from the gods, who gave him the tools he would need to fight Medusa: an adamant sickle, a mirror-polished shield, winged sandals, Hades ’ helmet of invisibility, and a special ...

2023年3月24日 · The Gorgon Medusa, whose gaze famously turned humans to stone, was once a lover of the sea god Poseidon. When Perseus, the hero of Argos, beheaded Medusa, Pegasus was born from her blood, together with the Giant Chrysaor. Poseidon was usually named as the father of both creatures, even if the mechanics of his paternity were obscure at best.

2023年5月20日 · The Minotaur was a hybrid monster (half-bull, half-man) born of the unorthodox union between the queen of Crete and a beautiful bull. The Minotaur was hidden from the world in the Labyrinth, a giant maze, where it was eventually slain by the Athenian hero Theseus.

2023年5月20日 · In some art from the Imperial period (32 BCE–476 CE), the Hydra was shown with Gorgon features, such as the head or even the torso of a human female. But these depictions were a later development of the myth, and relatively rare. Other Interpretations

2023年3月10日 · Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, was a beautiful princess of Ethiopia. Offered up as a sacrifice to Poseidon as punishment for her mother’s foolish boasts, Andromeda was rescued from death by Perseus, who took her back to Greece to be his queen.

2023年6月20日 · Perseus, for example, killed the Gorgon Medusa, who turned all those who looked upon her to stone; Bellerophon killed the fire-breathing hybrid monster known as the Chimera; and Heracles—perhaps the most prolific monster-slayer in all of Greek mythology—fought and defeated numerous creatures, including the …

2023年9月6日 · Gorgon head on terracotta tile from Tarentum in South Italy (c. 540 BC) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain. Other sources swelled the ranks of Phorcys’ offspring. According to Homer, Phorcys was the father of Thoosa, who later gave birth to the Cyclops Polyphemus. According to Sophocles, he was the father of the Sirens.

2023年7月10日 · According to a different tradition, it was the goddess Athena who gave Asclepius what he needed to raise the dead: the blood of the Gorgon Medusa. Asclepius realized that while the blood from the left side of the monster was poisonous, the blood from the right side was a powerful panacea that could cure death.