EURYALE

the name of the three sisters known as the Gorgons; her name means Wide-Wanderer.

The Gorgons, with the exception of Medusa, were immortal and hideous to behold; Euryale and her two sisters had snakes on their heads, about their wrists and around their waists. Euryale and her sister, Sthenno, gave chase to Perseus after he beheaded Medus

The Gorgons were the daughters of Phoreys and Ceto and sisters of the Graiae.

From: The Theogony of Hesiod

(ll 270-294) And again, Ceto bare to Phoreys the fair-cheeked Graiae, sisters grey from their birth: and both deathless gods and men who walk on earth call them Graiae, Pemphredo well-clad, and saffron-robed Enyo, and the Gorgons who dwell beyond glorious Oceanus in the frontier land towards Night where are the clear-voiced Hesperides, Sthenno, and Euryale, and Medusa who suffered a woeful fate: she was mortal, but the two were undying and grew not old. With her lay the Dark-haired One in a soft meadow amid spring flowers. And when Perseus cut off her head, there sprang forth great Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus who is so called because he was born near the springs (pegae) of Oceanus; and that other, because he held a golden blade (aor) in his hands. Now Pegasus flew away and left the earth, the mother of flocks, and came to the deathless gods: and he dwells in the house of Zeus and brings to wise Zeus the thunder and lightning. But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious Oceanus, and begot three-headed Geryones. Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns, and had crossed the ford of Oceanus and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious Oceanus.