Phorcides

Also Phorcydes or Phorcynides, a patronymic given to the daughters of Phorcys and Ceto, namely the Gorgons and the Graeae.

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References

Sources

  • Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound, 794.
  • Hyginus. Fabulae: Preface. p. 9.
  • Ovid. Metamorphoses iv, 742, 774; v, 230.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.