2023年1月18日 · To force the Graeae to reveal the location, Perseus stole the one eye that they shared among themselves: as the Graeae were exchanging the precious organ, Perseus darted in and snatched it away. He then refused to give it back until the sisters told him what he needed to know. Perseus Returning the Eye to the Graeae by Henri Fuseli (1790–1800)

2023年9月6日 · Phorcys, son of Pontus and Gaia, was a Greek sea god. He fathered a host of mythological monsters with his sister-consort Ceto. Among these terrifying children—sometimes collectively known as the “Phorcides”—were the Gorgons and the Graeae.

2023年9月4日 · Ceto, daughter of Pontus and Gaia, was a Greek goddess of the sea. She had no mythology of her own but was known for the many famous monsters—including the Gorgons and the Graeae—that she begot with her brother-consort Phorcys.

2023年3月8日 · In Hyginus, Fabulae pref.9, the Gorgons are the offspring of Ceto and Gorgon, rather than Ceto and Phorcys, and are thus the half-sisters of the Graeae. ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 333–35. ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 295–97 (though the reading of these lines is disputed). ↩; Only according to the scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica 4.1399 ...

2022年11月29日 · Greek mythology is full of strange and often terrifying creatures, some born at the very beginning of the cosmos. Many of these creatures terrorized mortals until they were slain by brave gods or heroes.

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3月11日 · Medusa, one of the three monstrous Gorgons, was a snake-haired female who turned anybody who looked upon her to stone. She was finally killed by the hero Perseus, who used her severed head as a weapon against his enemies.

2023年3月22日 · Empusa was a kind of spirit, often likened to a phantom or ghost, with the ability to assume different shapes. Sometimes she transformed into a terrifying creature to frighten travelers; other times she appeared as a beautiful woman …

2023年9月7日 · Daedalus was a craftsman from Athens who designed the famous Labyrinth—the prison of the Minotaur—and other marvelous creations for the Cretan king Minos. He and his son Icarus were imprisoned by Minos, but they managed to escape on wings that Daedalus had built.

2023年10月4日 · Danae, daughter of Acrisius, was a princess of Argos who was imprisoned by her own father. After Zeus seduced her as a shower of gold dust, she gave birth to the hero Perseus. Acrisius locked Danae and her child in a chest and threw it into the sea, but they were ultimately rescued by a fisherman in Seriphos.