Gorgon
mythological figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Gorgon-faced · that awful monster Gorgon · the Gorgon · the Gorgon's severed head
in the texts
Alcestis
Mythical monster invoked by Admetus as a simile for the dread of touching the veiled stranger.
There, then, I stretch it out as toward the Gorgon’s severed head.
Electra
The mythical monster whose severed head (associated with Perseus) is invoked by contrast and whose image appears on Athena's protective shield.
for she will prevent them, flickering with dreadful serpents, from touching you, as she stretches over your head her Gorgon-faced shield.
And he comes bringing a head to show you, not that of the Gorgon, but of the one you hate, Aegisthus;
Ion
Monstrous serpent-girdled creature born of Earth during the war with the giants and slain by Athena; the source of the deadly and healing blood-drops, of Athena's aegis, and of the emblem woven into Ion's baby robe.
A Gorgon figures in the centre of the warp.
Two drops of Gorgon’s blood.
There Earth brought Gorgon forth, dreadful prodigy.
Odyssey
Dreaded monster whose feared appearance from the house of Hades prompts Odysseus to abandon his vigil and flee to his ship.
And I should have seen still other of them that are gone before, whom I would fain have seen - Theseus and Peirithoos glorious children of the gods, but so many thousands of ghosts came round me and uttered such appalling cries, that I was panic stricken lest Persephone should send up from the house of Hades the head of that awful monster Gorgon.