Gorge (daughter of Danaos)
Gorge ( ancient Greek Γόργη Górgē ) is in Greek mythology a daughter of Danaos , the king of Libya . She is therefore one of the Danaids . Her mother was either Atlanteie or Phoibe , both hamadryads , with whom Danaos had nine other daughters.
At the mass wedding of the 50 daughters of Danaos with the 50 sons of Aegyptus , at which lot decided on the pairing, her Hippothoos , the son of an Arab mother, was assigned as her husband. Like all of her sisters with the exception of the Hypermestra , she killed her husband on their wedding night.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Gorge 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, column 1694 ( digitized ).
- Ludolf Malten : Gorge 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 2, Stuttgart 1912, Sp. 1596.
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 2,1,5.