Gorgons

The Gorgons (Gorgones in Latin) are in Greek mythology the daughter of the sea god Forquina and his wife and sister Ketó. They're called Sthenó, Eurylates and Medusa (the only one was mortal), and they're really ugly. They look monstrous: A grinning face, animal ears, tusks instead of teeth. Snakes twist around the head instead of hair. They have wings, metal fists, a scaled body. Looking at any of them makes a man stone.

The Gorgons live in the westernmost parts of the country, except on the shores of Okean. They also have siblings -- three bickering old women, Graia, and a brother, Laden, a huge dragon.According to rumors, at least Medusa (perhaps all of them) was a sprightly girl, or so Ovidius tells in the 4th book of his transformations. She said she was beautiful and her hair was beautiful, no man had left her unnoticed. Athena has deprived the Gorgons of beauty for their hosting and proud boasting that they surpass beauty to the goddess herself.

Medusa was killed by the Greek Perseus by avoiding a direct look at her, after which he would have petrified, setting up his shiny bronze shield to reflect her image as if in a mirror, attacking her from on high and chopping off her head.A fabled winged horse, Pégasos, and the monster Chrysaore, leapt from her body. It must be added that he would not have been so successful without Athena's help, she gave him a shield as polished as a mirror and sent him to the Graias, who lived in North Africa. They were old witches who owned only one eye and one tooth together.When they exchanged eye, Perseus took him and forced them to reveal their way to the Gorgons. Then he threw the eye into the water so Gray couldn't warn anyone. Then Perseus obtained a helmet from the nymph, in which he was invisible, winged sandals for the long journey, as well as a bag for the head of Gorgon Medusa, from the god Herm he still received a curved sword. It was only with this magical equipment that he could make the journey and the task successfully accomplished. Medusa's head was a terrible weapon that turned opponents to stone. Perseus used it three times, he said:

To the giant Atlant                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      on Phineas,his wife's rejected groom against                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     King Polydect for violence against his mother Then he donated the head of the dead Medusa to the goddess Athena, who attached it to her shield. Similarly, other Greek gods and heroes decorated their shields to frighten their enemies.