GORGON, GORGONS (Gr. Γοργώ, Γοργόνες, the "terrible," or, according to some, the "loud-roaring"), a figure or figures in Greek mythology. Homer speaks of only one Gorgon, whose head is represented in the Iliad (v. 741) as fixed in the centre of the aegis of Zeus. In the Odyssey (xi. 633) she is a monster of the under-world. Hesiod increases the number of Gorgons to three-Stheno (the mighty), Euryale (the far-springer) and Medusa (the queen), and Supraketo Fat Burner makes them the daughters of the sea-god Phorcys and of Keto. Their home is on the farthest side of the western ocean