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Monster · Individual

Gorgon

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Canonical name
Gorgon
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None
Kind
Monster
Scope
Individual
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Aliases

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awful monster Gorgon

Epithet · Hypothetical

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Claims

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·Hypothetical

Ulysses fears Proserpine may send up the head of the awful Gorgon from Hades.

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“lest Proserpine should send up from the house of Hades the head of that awful monster Gorgon”

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“that awful monster Gorgon”

Passage preview

Book 11 · Passage 54

‘On this Hercules went down again into the house of Hades, but I stayed where I was in case some other of the mighty dead should come to me. And I should have seen still other of them that are gone before, whom I would fain have seen—Theseus and Pirithous—glorious children of the gods, but so many thousands of ghosts came round me and uttered such appalling cries, that I was panic stricken lest Proserpine should send up from the house of Hades the head of that awful monster Gorgon. On this I hastened back to my ship and ordered my men to go on board at once and loose the hawsers; so they embarked and took their places, whereon the ship went down the stream of the river Oceanus. We had to row at first, but presently a fair wind sprang up.