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Graeae

The Graeae were two ancient hags. The Graeae were two daughters of Phorcys and Ceto, and were named Enyo and Pemphredo. They were the sisters of the Gorgons and possibly of Echidna and Ladon.

These ancient hags lived in a cave in one of the mountains in Libya, near Lake Tritonis. They were born with gray hair, and said to have the necks of swans. The Graeae shared an eye and a tooth between themselves.

Perseus stole the eye from them so he could gain information on where he could find a weapon to kill Medusa, as well as where to find the lair of the Gorgons. Perseus either returned the eye to them, or threw it into a lake.

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Mythical Creatures:

  • • Satyrs
  • • Myrmidons
  • • Dragon-teeth Men (Sparti)
  • • Earthborn Kings
  • • Argus Panoptes
  • • Geryon
  • • Graeae
  • • Keres
  • • Pegasus
  • • Arion
  • • Xanthus and Balius
  • • Ocyrrhoe
  • • Laelaps and the Teumessian Vixen
  • • Maera
  • • Cretan Bull
  • • Golden Fleece
  • • Calydonian Boar
  • • Crommyonian Sow
  • • Erymanthian Boar
  • • Nemean Lion
  • • Eagle (Aquila)
  • • Typhon
  • • Ceto
  • • Cetus
  • • Echidna
  • • Python
  • • Ladon
  • • Delphyne
  • • Campe
  • • Hydra
  • • Scylla
  • • Sphinx
  • • Chimaera
  • • Griffin (Gryphon)
  • • Cerberus
  • • Orthus
  • • Minotaur
  • • Gorgons
  • • Lamia
  • • Empusae
  • • Sirens
  • • Harpies
  • • Stymphalian Birds
  • • Caucasian Eagle
  • • Phoenix
Gorgons

Gorgons

The Gorgons, Γοργόνες, were perhaps the strangest of the monsters that appeared in Classical mythology. They were winged women with snakes on their heads instead of hair. A single glimpse of their hideous visage would turn any creature, mortal or ...

June 1st, 2000 • Jimmy Joe
Ceto

Ceto

Ceto (Κητώ) was a sea-monster, the daughter of Pontus ("Sea") and Gaea ("Earth"). Ceto was the sister of the sea gods Nereus and Phorcys. Not much detail is known about Ceto except that she was mother of several monstrous offspring by her brother ...

June 1st, 2000 • Jimmy Joe
Phorcys

Phorcys

An ancient sea-god. Phorcys was the son of Pontus and Gaea. Phorcys may have been an important sea-god before the arrival of Poseidon. By his sister Ceto (sea-monster), he became the father of the Gorgons, Graeae, and possibly of Echidna and Ladon.

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Graces

Graces

Personification of beauty and grace. They were known to the Greeks as Charties and to the Romans as Gratiae. They were the three daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, who was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. The three sisters were named: Charis or Ag...

April 24th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Gaea and her Daughters

Gaea and her Daughters

In Greek mythology, Gaea and her daughters – Rhea, Themis and Dione – were the earliest earth and mother goddesses. These goddesses played decisive roles in Hesiod's Theogony, where they made or removed rulers.Gaea Gaea (Γαἳα) was seen as the eart...

June 22nd, 2003 • Jimmy Joe
Harpies

Harpies

A group of winged women. There were said to be only two harpies: Aello and Ocypetes, the daughters of Thaumas, the son of Pontus and Gaea, and the Oceanid Electra. They were the sisters of Iris. Later writers said there was a third Harpy. The best...

June 1st, 2000 • Jimmy Joe
Arimaspi: The Unusual Tribe of the One-Eyed Men and No Women

Arimaspi: The Unusual Tribe of the One-Eyed Men and No Women

Arimaspi was a group of men in Greek mythology that were physically different from all the other men in the way that they looked. These men had only one eye and that was their unique characteristic. This unusual tribe is highly reported in the wor...

February 15th, 2024 • Ancient Literature
Moerae (Fates)

Moerae (Fates)

Goddesses of fate. The Fates or Moerae (Moirai) were known by Hesiod as the three daughters of Nyx ("Night"): Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. In later accounts they were known as daughters of Zeus and Themis, and possibly sisters of the Seasons (Hor...

March 4th, 2024 • Timeless Myths
Groa

Groa

Sorceress and a sibyl. Groa was wife of Aurvandil the Bold. She appeared in the Prose Edda, in the myth where Thor fought the giant Hrungnir. Although Thor killed the giant with the Mjollnir, a piece of Hrungnir's whetstone was lodged in Thor's he...

September 28th, 2003 • Jimmy Joe
Alcyone, Celaeno and Asterope

Alcyone, Celaeno and Asterope

The other Pleiades' seduction by Poseidon and Ares was less interesting.Alcyone Poseidon seduced Alcyone (Ἀλκυόνη) who became the mother of Hyreis, Hyperenor and Aethusa.Celaeno Celaeno (Κελαινώ) had Poseidon as her lover as well, and became the m...

August 31st, 2002 • Jimmy Joe
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