Editing Gorgons (section)

===Gorgon blood===
In some accounts, the blood of "the Gorgon" (any Gorgon?) was said to have both the power to heal and harm.<ref>Bremmer 2006, [https://referenceworks-brill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/display/entries/NPOE/e426440.xml s.v. Gorgo 1].</ref> According to Euripides' ''Ion'', Athena gave two drops of blood from the Gorgon she slew for her aegis to [[Erichthonius (son of Hephaestus)|Erichthonius]], one of which "wards off diseases and nourishes life", while the other "kills, as it is poison from the Gorgon serpents".<ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Ion (play)|Ion]]'', [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg010.perseus-eng1:998-1047 1003&ndash;1015], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg010.perseus-eng1:1048-1060 1055], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg010.perseus-eng1:1261-1281 1265].</ref> While according to Apollodorus, Athena gave [[Asclepius]] some of the blood the Gorgon, "and while he used the blood that flowed from the veins on the left side for the bane of mankind, he used the blood that flowed from the right side for salvation, and by that means he raised the dead."<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.10.3 3.10.3]. Compare with Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.7.3 2.7.3], which says that Heracles, who had received a lock of Medusa's hair from Athena, gave it to [[Tegea]] for the city's protection from attack (according to [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.47.5 87.47.5], the lock of hair was given to Tegea by Athena herself), see Gantz, p. 428.</ref>