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Gorgon

In Greek mythology according to the Greek poet Hesiod, any of three monsters; the sisters Stheno and Euryale, daughters of the sea god Phorcys and Ceto, and the mortal Medusa. They had wings, claws, enormous teeth, and snakes for hair; direct sight of them turned living creatures to stone. Medusa was slain by Perseus who watched her reflection in his shield, although her head retained its power to transform.

The gorgon also occurs singly in variations of the myth. Homer's Odyssey and Iliad described it as a monster of the underworld, whose head was fixed in the centre of Zeus' aegis (shield). Later the head appeared on the shield of Athena. In Ion, the Greek dramatist Euripides represented the monster as a single gorgon slain by Athena.



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The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth--above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes--were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
The Gorgon had surveyed the building again in the night, and had added the one stone face wanting; the stone face for which it had waited through about two hundred years.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
True, she was a sweet woman and an angel of a wife; but what if a Gorgon should return, amid the transports of our connubial bliss, and take the angel's place.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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