Gorge (mythology)
In
Ancient Greek: Γόργη, comes from the adjective gorgos, "terrible" or "horrible"[1]
) may refer to:
- Gorge, a Hippodamia, Rhodia, Cleopatra, Asteria, Hippodamia, Glauce, Hippomedusa, Iphimedusa and Rhode. She married and murdered Hippothous, son of Aegyptus.[2]
- Gorge, a
- 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, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. .
- 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, 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). "Gorge"
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