Gorgophone (daughter of Perseus)

Gorgophone ( Greek  Γοργοφόνη ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

She is the daughter of Andromeda and Perseus , from whose victory over the Gorgon Medusa her name is derived. Gorgophone marries Perieres , King of Messenia , and with him they have four sons named Aphareus , Leucippus , Tyndareos and Ikarios .

After the death of Perieres she married the king Oibalus of Sparta. Pausanias reports that she was the first woman to remarry after the death of her husband. Tyndareos is also known as the son of Oibalos.

According to Pausanias, her grave is in Argos near a hill in which the head of Medusa, which was cut off by her father Perseus, was buried.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Gorgophone 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Sp. 1727 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 4, 5.
2. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 5; 3, 10, 3.
3. ↑ Pausanias : Description of Greece 2, 21, 7.
4. ↑ Pausanias: Description of Greece 3, 1, 3–4; 4, 2, 4.
5. ↑ Pausanias: Description of Greece 2, 21, 5–7.