Gorgons
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the Gorgons · the monstrous race of Phorcus
in the texts
Shield of Heracles
Monstrous sister-creatures with serpent girdles depicted pursuing Perseus across Heracles's shield.
And after him rushed the Gorgons, unapproachable and unspeakable, longing to seize him:
their tongues were flickering, and their teeth gnashing with fury, and their eyes glaring fiercely.
Pythian
The three monstrous sisters with serpent hair, of whom Medusa is one, the race of Phorcus, one of whom Perseus beheads.
He killed the Gorgon, and came back bringing stony death to the islanders, the head that shimmered with hair made of serpents.
be propitious, and with the goodwill of gods and men, mistress, receive this victory garland from Pytho in honor of renowned Midas, and receive the victor himself, champion of Hellas in that art which once Pallas Athena discovered when she wove into music the dire dirge of the reckless Gorgons which Perseus heard pouring in slow anguish from beneath the horrible snakey hair of the maidens, when he …