. are sometimes calledPhorcydes. Hesiod placed them in the far the Ocean, in the neighbourhood of Nightand the Hesperides ; but later traditions trans-ferred them to Libya(Hes. Th. 274; Hdt. ; ,6). Theywere frightful beings;instead of hair, theirheads were coveredwith hissing serpents ;and they had wings,brazen claws, and enor-mous teeth (Hes. ; Pind. 01. xiii. 63,Pyth. x. 47 ; 799 ; Eum. 46 ;Ov. Met. iv. 771).Medusa, who alone of the three was mortal,was, according to some legends, at first a be
. are sometimes calledPhorcydes. Hesiod placed them in the far the Ocean, in the neighbourhood of Nightand the Hesperides ; but later traditions trans-ferred them to Libya(Hes. Th. 274; Hdt. ; ,6). Theywere frightful beings;instead of hair, theirheads were coveredwith hissing serpents ;and they had wings,brazen claws, and enor-mous teeth (Hes. ; Pind. 01. xiii. 63,Pyth. x. 47 ; 799 ; Eum. 46 ;Ov. Met. iv. 771).Medusa, who alone of the three was mortal,was, according to some legends, at first a beau-tiful maid (cf. Pind. Pyth. xii. 27), but her hairwas changed into serpents by Athene, in con-sequence of her having become by Poseidonthe mother of Chrysaor and Pegasus, in oneof Athenes temples. Her head now becameso fearful that everyone who looked at itwas changed into stone. For the manner of GOTHI 369. Archaic head of the GorgonMedusa on a coin of Eretria
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