Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Monster · Individual

Gorgon

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Gorgon
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Monster
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

2

dread monster Gorgon

Descriptive reference · Direct

Gorgo

Alternative name · Simile

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

3
·Direct

Gorgon’s grim and awful head appears upon Minerva’s aegis.

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“there was the head of the dread monster Gorgon, grim and awful to behold, portent of aegis-bearing Jove.”
·Simile

Gorgo’s glaring eyes, alongside those of murderous Mars, provide a comparison for Hector’s gaze.

See evidence text
“his eyes glaring like those of Gorgo or murderous Mars”
·Direct

A fierce, grim Gorgon head appears on Agamemnon’s shield between Rout and Panic.

See evidence text
“a Gorgon’s head, fierce and grim, with Rout and Panic on either side”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Direct
“dread monster Gorgon”
·Simile
“his eyes glaring like those of Gorgo”

Passage preview

Book 5 · Passage 59

Meanwhile Minerva flung her richly embroidered vesture, made with her own hands, on to her father’s threshold, and donned the shirt of Jove, arming herself for battle. She threw her tasselled aegis about her shoulders, wreathed round with Rout as with a fringe, and on it were Strife, and Strength, and Panic whose blood runs cold; moreover there was the head of the dread monster Gorgon, grim and awful to behold, portent of aegis-bearing Jove. On her head she set her helmet of gold, with four plumes, and coming to a peak both in front and behind—decked with the emblems of a hundred cities; then she stepped into her flaming chariot and grasped the spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, with which she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her. Juno lashed the horses on, and the gates of heaven bellowed as they flew open of their own accord—gates over which the Hours preside, in whose hands are Heaven and Olympus, either to open the dense cloud that hides them, or to close it. Through these the goddesses drove their obedient steeds, and found the son of Saturn sitting all alone on the topmost ridges of Olympus. There Juno stayed her horses, and spoke to Jove the son of Saturn, lord of all. ‘Father Jove,’ said she, ‘are you not angry with Mars for these high doings? how great and goodly a host of the Achaeans he has destroyed to my great grief, and without either right or reason, while the Cyprian and Apollo are enjoying it all at their ease and setting this unrighteous madman on to do further mischief. I hope, Father Jove, that you will not be angry if I hit Mars hard, and chase him out of the battle.’