THE GREEKS APPLIED the name Gorgo or, less commonly, Gorgon to female monsters which are a favourite subject in their extant art, sometimes terrifying but sometimes, to all appearances, humorous. In mythology, the Gorgons figure chiefly in the story of Perseus. The ancient lore concerning them is most fully summed up in Apollodorus's Library of Mythology, in Ovid's Meta-morphoses and in Lucan's Pharsalia. These accounts written between the 2nd century BC and the 1st century