Gorgophone (daughter of Danaos)
Gorgophone ( ancient Greek Γοργοφόνη Gorgophónē ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
She is one of the Danaids , the 50 daughters of Danaos . Her mother is Elephantis . She married in a mass wedding one of the 50 sons of Aegyptus , Proteus . Like almost all of her sisters, she kills her husband on their wedding night.
swell
- Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 1, 5.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Gorgophone 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Sp. 1727 ( digitized version ).