Role Of Gorgons In Greek Mythology

Karissa Bueno
Mrs.Cox
English
14 May 2018 Greek Creatures
All three of these creatures are gorgons. These gorgon are famous for something unique. The sirens are famous for their enchanting singing,which would take the live of people. Medusa is famous for having snaky hair and the ability to turn people into stone. The cyclops are famous for their one-eye and eating people who wondered their way.Three important Greek creatures in Greek mythology are The sirens,Medusa, and Cyclops. Sirens are human-mermaid like creatures that according to Greek mythology lured sailors to their death. “They had enchanting voices and their singing lured sailors to their death. It was not known what they looked

“And they are three, the gorgons each with wings and snaky hair, most horrible to mortals. Whom no man shall behold and draw again. The breath of life, for the reason that whoever looked at them was instantly into stone.”(Hamilton 156). Many people wanted some part of Medusa as for the king did too. “He stood up before them all and did exactly what the king had hoped he would do, declared that he would give him a present better then any there. He would go off and kill Medusa and bring her head as a gift. Nothing could have suited the king better.”(Hamilton 156). When people were to look at medusa they were to turn into stone, but as to look at her in a reflection you were not turned into stone. “In the mirror of the bright shield he could see them clearly, creatures with great wings and bodies covered with golden scales and hair a mass twisting”(Hamilton 158). As one of the kings peasants did not succeed with present he was punished by the king. “ Just let Medusa come; then we shall turn him into stone; they all cried looking down ‘we shall punished Theseus

Cyclops are famous for the eye. “To three others was given the name of cyclops(the wheel-eyed), because each had only one enormous eyes as round and as big as a wheel, in the middle of the forehead.”(Hamilton 66). Many people wanted to go after or as in other words wanted to see the cyclops, “An eye huge as the sky on his forehead a mountain can hardly balance under the burden of colossal fleesh, it’s deep night sleep is sweet in a dark spacious cave in a few minutes the wise ulysses will blind him and again we’ll throw our hands up in dismay astonished at the powerlessness of gods.”(Abdullaev,Shamshad). The cyclops never really left their home due to laws that were made for the cyclops. “They have neither assemblies for deliberation nor any established laws.Instead they dwell in hollow caves on the peaks of lofty mountains, where each one sets laws for his wife and children, and they have no regard for one another.”(Newton,Rick M.). For the cyclops they had killed apollo's son “Apollo, in great anger at his son's death, went to Etha, where the cyclops forged the thunderbolts and killed with his arrows, some say the cyclops themselves, some say their son”(Hamilton 312). No one really knows what happened back there with Apollo except Apollo and the