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A Gorgon is used as a boss fight in the 2016 game Enter the Gungeon, in the game's second level. The boss is named the Gorgun to fit with the game's style of everything being gun related. In the 2020 video game Hades, it is implied that Dusa, the disembodied Gorgon head serving as the maid for the House of Hades, was Medusa before being ...
The Gorgons (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr ɡ ən z / GOR-gənz; Ancient Greek: Γοργώνες), [2] in Greek mythology, are three monstrous sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, said to be the daughters of Phorcys and Ceto.
Medusa and her Gorgon sisters Euryale and Stheno were usually described as daughters of Phorcys and Ceto; of the three, only Medusa was mortal. Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon [5] until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield.
'forceful') [2] and Euryale (/ j ʊəˈr aɪ ə l i / yuu-RY-ə-lee; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυάλη, romanized: Euryálē, lit. 'far-roaming') [3] were two of the three Gorgons, along with Medusa, sisters who were able to turn anyone who looked at them to stone. [4] When Perseus beheaded Medusa, the two Gorgons pursued him but were unable to ...
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
Gorgon was one of Rouse's first major compositions for symphony orchestra. The composer had long planned the piece and, rather than write a ceremonial work, used the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's commission to see its realization. Gorgon was inspired by the legend of the three Gorgons from Greek mythology: Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa ...
Gorgon Video, a video production company and film distributor of dark documentaries and extreme horror films; Gorgon (comics), two Marvel Comics and two DC Comics characters; Delphyne Gorgon, a Marvel Comics character; Archduke Gorgon, a character from the Mazinger series of manga and anime; Gorgon, a 1981 side-scrolling game for the Apple II
In Greek mythology, Chrysaor (Ancient Greek: Χρυσάωρ, romanized: Khrysáor, gen. Χρυσάορος), "he who has a golden sword" (from χρυσός "golden" and ἄορ "sword"]) was the brother of the winged horse Pegasus, often depicted as a young man, the son of Poseidon and Medusa, born when Perseus decapitated the Gorgon Medusa.