Editing Gorgons (section)

===Dwelling place===
Where the Gorgons were supposed to live varies in the ancient sources.<ref>Fowler 2013, p. 252; Hard 2004, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA59 pp. 59&ndash;60]; Gantz, p. 20.</ref>  According to Hesiod, the Gorgons lived far to the west beyond [[Oceanus]] (the Titan, and world-circling river) near its springs, at the edge of night where the [[Hesperides]] (and the Graeae?) live.<ref>Fowler 2013, p. 254; Gantz, p. 20; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D270 274&ndash;282]. As to whether Hesiod means to include the Graeae as also living there, Fowler reads Hesiod as including the Graeae, while Gantz does not. Compare with [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.2 2.4.2], which has Perseus fly to "the ocean" [i.e Oceanus] to find the Gorgons.</ref> The ''[[Cypria]]'' apparently had the Gorgons living in Oceanus on a rocky island named Sarpedon.<ref>Bremmer 2006, [https://referenceworks-brillonline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/gorgo-e426440?s.num=0&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.brill-s-new-pauly&s.q=Gorgo s.v. Gorgo 1]; Hard 2004, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA60 p. 60]; Ganz, p. 20; West 1966, p. 246 line 274 πέρην κλυτοῦ Ὠκεανοῖο; West 2003, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_epic_fragments_trojan_cycle_cypria/2003/pb_LCL497.107.xml Cypria fr. 30 West] [= fr. 24 Allen = fr. 32 Bernabé]. [[Pherecydes of Athens|Pherecydes]] also has the Gorgons living somewhere in Oceanus, see Gantz, p. 20; Pherecydes fr. 11 Fowler (Fowler 2000, pp. 280&ndash;281) [= Scolia on [[Apollonius of Rhodes]] 4.1515a].</ref> [[Aeschylus]]'s ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'' places them in the far east "across the surging sea" on the "Gorgonean plains of Cisthene", where the Graeae live, while his lost play ''Phorkides'' (another name for the Graeae) apparently placed them at "Lake Tritonis", a mythological lake set somewhere in westernmost North Africa.<ref>Fowler 2013, p. 254; Hard 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7IMSBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176 p. 176 16 ''Tritonis'']; Sommerstein, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-attributed_fragments/2009/pb_LCL505.261.xml pp. 260&ndash;261]; [[Aeschylus]] (?), ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg003.perseus-eng1:780-818 790&ndash;800]; Aeschylus fr. 262 [= [[Eratosthenes]], ''[[Catasterismi]]'' 22 (Hard 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7IMSBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 p. 16])]. For lake Tritonis, and the Gorgons being located in North Africa, see also: [[Herodotus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.91.6 2.91.6], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:4.178 4.178], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:4.186.1 4.186.1]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.17.3 3.17.3].</ref> And the fifth-century BC poet [[Pindar]] has Perseus, apparently on his quest for the Gorgon head, visit the [[Hyperboreans]] (usually considered to dwell in the far north). However, whether Pindar means to imply that the Gorgons lived near the Hyperboreans is unclear.<ref>Fowler 2013, p. 254; Bremmer (2006), [https://referenceworks-brillonline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/gorgo-e426440?s.num=0&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.brill-s-new-pauly&s.q=Gorgo s.v. Gorgo 1]; Gantz, p. 20 ; [[Pindar]], ''Phythian'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg002.perseus-eng1:10 10.30&ndash;48]. Although Bremmer reads Pindar as having located the Gorgons "among the Hyperboreans", Fowler does not conclude that Pindar did this, while Gantz says that Pindar "may or may not" have done so.</ref>