AN ANTIQUITY. "GREATEST OF ALL TIME."

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 5

AN ANTIQUITY. "GREATEST OF ALL TIME."

UNEARTHED AT CORFU. A MONSTER GORGON. By, Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 15, 9 a.m.) CORFU, 14th April. The Kaiser witnessed at Garitza, in Corcyraen Temple, dating from the beginning of the sixth century before Christ, the unearthing of a slab containing a representation of the clothed j body of a monster Gorgon and of her foot, the latter being twenty inches long. The Kaiser described the find as one of the greatest antiquities of all time. [Gorgo, or Gorgon, according to Homer, was a frightful female monster, inhabiting the infernal regions. Heriod mentions three Gorgons — Stheno, Eury* ale, 1 and Medusa, of whom the lastnamed is the chief inheritor of the characteristic attributes of the single Homerio Gorgon. Their habitation was on the brink of the Western Ocean, in the neighbourhood of Night and the Hesperides; but Herodotus and other later writers place it at Libya.}