Gorge, daughter of Oeneus of Calydon, was married to Andraemon and bore Thoas, so carrying the Aetolian royal line into the Trojan-War generation.1
Apollodorus names Gorge among the children Althaea bore to Oeneus, king of Calydon, set beside her brother Meleager and her sister Deianira. Of her he records simply that Andraemon married Gorge.2
Her marriage made her a channel of the Aetolian succession: Diomedes, Apollodorus reports, gave the kingdom of Calydon to Andraemon, the husband of Oeneus' daughter, and in the catalogue of those who sailed against Troy the Aetolian contingent was led by Thoas, son of Andraemon and Gorge.3
When Latona transformed the mourning sisters of Meleager into birds, Ovid singles out two who escaped the change: Gorge and the wife of Heracles were not so altered, and so she kept her human form through the family's grief.4
Pausanias places her resting place at Amphissa, where he was shown the tomb of Andraemon; buried with him, the people said, was his wife Gorge, the daughter of Oeneus.5
A darker tradition cuts across her marriage. Apollodorus reports that, where the common account makes Periboea the mother of Tydeus, Pisander held that his mother was Gorge, for Zeus had willed that Oeneus should fall in love with his own daughter — making Gorge by this telling both child and consort of her father.6
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