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 ).