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Characters in Greek mythology called "Gorge"
In
Greek mythology , Gorge [
pronunciation? ] (
Ancient Greek : Γόργη , comes from the adjective gorgos, "terrible" or "horrible"
[1] ) may refer to:
Gorge, a
Libyan princess as one of the
Danaïdes , daughters of King Danaus. Her mother was either the
hamadryads
Atlanteia or
Phoebe and thus, probably the full sister of
Hippodamia ,
Rhodia ,
Cleopatra ,
Asteria , Hippodamia,
Glauce ,
Hippomedusa ,
Iphimedusa and
Rhode . She married and murdered
Hippothous , son of
Aegyptus .
[2]
Gorge, a
Calydonian princess as the daughter of King
Oeneus and
Althaea , daughter of King
Thestius of
Pleuron .
[3] She was the sister of
Deianeira ,
Meleager ,
Toxeus ,
Clymenus ,
Periphas ,
Agelaus (or
Ageleus ),
Thyreus (or
Phereus or
Pheres ),
Eurymede and
Melanippe .
[4] Gorge married
Andraemon and became the mother of a son
Thoas who led the
Aetolian contingent for the Greeks in the
Trojan War .
[5]
Artemis changed her sisters into birds because of their constant mourning over the death of their brother
Meleager , but spared Gorge and
Deianeira .
[6]
Apollodorus says that according to Pisander, she was the mother of
Tydeus by her own father Oeneus, because "
Zeus willed it that Oeneus should fall in love with his own daughter".
[7]
Gorge, a woman of
Lemnos who slew
Elymus the night Lemnian women killed their men.
[8]
Gorge, a
Maenad in the retinue of
Dionysus during his Indian campaign.
[9]
Notes
^
Antoninus Liberalis , Notes and Commentary on Meleagrides sv. Gorge. p.111
^
Apollodorus ,
2.1.5
^ Apollodorus,
1.8.1
^
Hesiod ,
Ehoiai
fr. 98 as cited in
Berlin Papyri No. 9777; Antoninus Liberalis,
2 as cited in
Nicander's Metamorphoses
^
Homer ,
Iliad
2.638–644
^
Ovid ,
Metamorphoses
532 ; Apollodorus,
1.8 ;
Pausanias ,
10.38.5
^ Apollodorus,
1.8.5
^
Statius ,
Thebaid
5. 207
^
Nonnus , 29.266
References
Antoninus Liberalis , The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992).
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Apollodorus , The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Hesiod ,
Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914.
Online version at theio.com
Homer ,
The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
ISBN
978-0674995796 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
ISBN
978-0198145318 .
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Nonnus of Panopolis ,
Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Pausanias , Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
ISBN
0-674-99328-4 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Publius Ovidius Naso ,
Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.
Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Publius Papinius Statius ,
The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II . John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928.
Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Smith, William ;
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , London (1873).
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