Gorgo, Medusa The best known of the Three Gorgons, the daughters of Phorcys. A winged monster with snake locks, glaring eyes and brazen claws whose gaze turns men to stone. Her sisters were Stheino and Euryale. Bk IV:604-662, Bk IV:663-705. Perseus has been helped by Athene and Hermes to overcome Medusa. He was not to look at her head directly but only in a brightly-polished shield. He cut off her head with an adamantine sickle, at which Pegasus the winged horse and the warrior Chrysaor sprang from her body. He now uses her head to petrify Atlas, and tells Cepheus and Cassiope of the exploit. Bk IV:753-803. Perseus tells of how he took her severed head, and of how Minerva placed snakes on her head, because Medusa was violated by Neptune in Minerva’s temple. Bk V:149-199. Perseus uses the head against his enemies. Gortyniacus From Gortyn in Crete, hence Cretan. Its bows noted for the swiftness of the arrow in flight. Bk VII:759-795. Gradivus An epithet of Mars. Bk VI:401-438. Bk XIV:805-828. Bk XV:843-870. Mars, the father of Romulus (Quirinus). Graeae The three daughters of Ceto and Phorcys, sisters of the Gorgons, fair-faced and swanlike but with hair grey from birth and one eye and one tooth between them. Their names were Deino, Enyo and Pemphredo. Bk IV:753-803. Perseus visits them in their cave under Mount Atlas and steals the single eye. Graecia, Greece The country in southern Europe, bordering on the Ionian, Cretan and Aegean Seas. Bk XIII:123-381. Graïus Grecian. Bk XV:622-745 et.al. Granicus A river and river god of Asia Minor, father of Alexiroë. Site of a famous victory of Alexander the Great. Bk XI:749-795. Gratiae, The Graces The three sisters, daughters of Jupiter and Eurynome, attendants to Venus, used collectively, Gratia. Often depicted with arms entwined in dance (See Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’) their names were Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia. They signified giving, receiving, and thanking, later the Platonic triad, love, beauty, truth. Bk VI:401-438. Attendant on wedding ceremonies. Gryneus A centaur. He kills Broteas, and Orios the son of Mycale. He is killed by Exadius at the battle of Lapiths and Centaurs. Bk XII:245-289. |
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