Gorgus

First appears: The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2

Life events

• Xanthus and Gorgus commissioned Homer to compose an epitaph for their father Midas’s tomb.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2)
  • With: Homer Xanthus Midas
  • “Now Xanthus and Gorgus, son of Midas the king, heard his epics and invited him to compose a epitaph for the tomb of their father”
• Xanthus and Gorgus gave Homer a silver bowl for his epitaph.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2)
  • With: Xanthus Homer
  • “For these verses they gave him a silver bowl”

The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2

• parent: Midas “Now Xanthus and Gorgus, son of Midas the king, heard his epics and invited him to compose a epitaph for the tomb of their father on which was a bronze figure of a maiden bewailing the death of Midas.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.