In Greek mythology, Gorge (Ancient Greek: Γόργη) is a name borne by several figures, the best known being a Calydonian princess, daughter of King Oeneus and Althaea. She was a sister of Meleager and Deianeira, married Andraemon, and became the mother of Thoas, who led the Aetolian contingent at Troy. When Artemis transformed her grieving sisters into birds after Meleager's death, Gorge and Deianeira were spared.
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I.Name and bearers
Gorge (Ancient Greek: Γόργη) is a feminine name in Greek mythology, derived from the adjective gorgos, meaning "terrible" or "horrible."
Several distinct figures bear the name. The most prominent is a Calydonian princess, the daughter of King Oeneus and Althaea. Others include a daughter of Danaus, a Lemnian woman, and a follower of Dionysus.
II.Family
The Calydonian Gorge was a daughter of King Oeneus of Calydon and Althaea, daughter of King Thestius.
Her siblings included Deianeira, Meleager, Toxeus, Clymenus, Periphas, Agelaus (or Ageleus), Thyreus (or Phereus, or Pheres), Eurymede, and Melanippe.
Gorge married Andraemon and became the mother of a son, Thoas, who led the Aetolian contingent for the Greeks in the Trojan War.
III.Mythology
When Meleager died, his sisters mourned him without cease. Artemis changed these sisters into birds because of their constant grief, but spared Gorge and Deianeira.
In a variant tradition reported by Apollodorus on the authority of Pisander, Gorge was the mother of Tydeus by her own father, Oeneus, because "Zeus willed it that Oeneus should fall in love with his own daughter." In the more common account, the mother of Tydeus was Periboea.
Gorge and her husband Andraemon were said to be buried together at Amphissa, where their tomb was shown.
IV.Other figures named Gorge
A daughter of King Danaus (a Danaid). She married and killed Hippothous, one of the sons of Aegyptus.
A Lemnian woman who slew Elymus on the night the women of Lemnos killed their men.
A Maenad in the retinue of Dionysus during his Indian campaign.