The Gorgon, a single monster for Homer, but three daughters of the sea god Phorcys and his sister Ceto, were shown with wings and goofy-looking or grotesque grinning faces with tongues sticking out. Of the three, Stheno (the Mighty), Euryale (the Far Springer), and Medusa (the Queen), only Medusa was mortal. In this Gorgon, the hair is wild, and possibly serpentine. Sometimes snakes are wrapped around her waist.
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Gorgon from an Attic black-figure neck-amphora, c. 520–510 B.C.
Gorgon from a 6th Century B.C. Black-figure amphora.
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