Gorgo
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Cleomenes' daughter and Leonidas' wife · his daughter Gorgo · the child
in the texts
The Histories
The young daughter of Cleomenes who warns her father that the foreign guest Aristagoras will corrupt him with bribes.
He first asked Cleomenes to send away the child, his daughter Gorgo, who was standing by him.
When he finally promised fifty talents the child cried out, “Father, the stranger will corrupt you, unless you leave him and go away.
When the tablet came to Lacedaemon, the Lacedaemonians could not guess its meaning, until at last (as I have been told) Gorgo, Cleomenes ' daughter and Leonidas ' wife, discovered the trick herself and advised them to scrape the wax away so that they would find writing on the wood.
Iliad
Mythological monster (Gorgon) invoked as a simile for a terrifying gaze.
but Hektor wheeled his horses this way and that, his eyes glaring like those of Gorgo or murderous Ares.