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 …

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 …

2023年7月3日 · Martin P. Nilsson, The Mycenaean Origins of Greek Mythology (1932; repr., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), 40–42. ↩; T. P. Howe, “The Origin and …

2023年1月18日 · When Perseus set out to kill the Gorgon Medusa, he first came to the lair of the Graeae. There, he stole the sisters’ single eye, rendering them blind so they would help him …

2023年3月24日 · Mythology Origins. 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, …

2023年5月5日 · The poems of Ovid (43 BCE–17/18 CE) are valuable sources for the mythology of Jason: Jason is central to the fourth book of the Metamorphoses, and two of Ovid’s Heroides …

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 …

2023年5月20日 · A 2009 monster movie, titled simply Hydra, was also inspired by the many-headed serpent of Greek mythology. Moreover, the name “Hydra” was given to a villainous …

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 …

2023年3月11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 …