Gorge (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Gorge(Ancient Greek: Γόργη, comes from the adjective gorgos, "terrible" or "horrible"[1]) may refer to:

• Gorge, a Calydonian princess as the daughter of King Oeneus and Althaea, daughter of King Thestius of Pleuron.[2] She was the sister of Deianeira, Meleager, Toxeus, Clymenus, Periphas, Agelaus (or Ageleus), Thyreus (or Phereus or Pheres), Eurymede and Melanippe.[3][4] Gorge married Andraemon and became the mother of a son Thoas who led the Aetolian contingent for the Greeks in the Trojan War.[5] Artemis changed her sisters into birds because of their constant mourning over the death of their brother Meleager, but spared Gorge and Deianeira.[6] Apollodorus says that according to Pisander, she was the mother of Tydeus by her own father Oeneus, because "Zeus willed it that Oeneus should fall in love with his own daughter".[7]
• Gorge, a Libyan princess as one of the Danaïdes, daughters of King Danaus. Her mother was either the hamadryads Atlanteia or Phoebe and thus, probably the full sister of Hippodamia, Rhodia, Cleopatra, Asteria, Hippodamia, Glauce, Hippomedusa, Iphimedusa and Rhode. She married and murdered Hippothous, son of Aegyptus.[8]
• Gorge, a woman of Lemnos who slew Elymus the night Lemnian women killed their men.[9]
• Gorge, a Maenad in the retinue of Dionysus during his Indian campaign.[10]

Notes

1. Antoninus Liberalis. Metamorphoses, Notes and Commentary on Meleagrides sv. Gorge. p.111
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.8.1
3. Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 2
4. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 98 as cited in Berlin Papyri, No. 9777
5. Homer, Iliad 2.638–644.
6. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 532; Apollodorus, Library, 1.8; Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.38.5.
7. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library, 1.8.5.
8. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library, 2.1.5.
9. Statius, Thebaid, 5. 207
10. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 29. 266

References

• Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Gorge"