Euryale

deity earth Greek single tradition · 4

One of three Gorgon sisters with snakes for hair, sharp fangs, golden wings, and petrifying gazes.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony.

Relationships

sibling of
Sthenno, Medusa, Stheno
child of
Ceto, Phorcys

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Sources

Source passages

“Gorgons - three sisters (Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa) with snakes for hair, sharp fangs, golden wings, and petrifying gazes.”

#4449 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Ceto and Phorcys as the two Graiae: Pemphredo and Enyo, and the three Gorgons: Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa”

#5988 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The three Gorgon sisters (Medusa, Euryale, and Stheno), with hair made of venomous snakes, turn anyone who looks at them to stone”

#6877 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Medusa has two twin immortal sisters, Stheno and Euryale. They are goddess girls in her family, but Medusa is mortal.”

#43252 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001