{"id":114823,"date":"2022-11-17T09:26:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T08:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=114823"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T08:26:52","slug":"mythical-gorgons","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/mythical-gorgons\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythical gorgons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ulpian, the great Roman jurist, the mythical <b>gorgons<\/b> &#8211; dangerous sisters with a terrifying appearance, who were depicted as winged figures with claws, sharp fangs and hair in the form of poisonous snakes &#8211; inhabited <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/romes-contacts-with-africa-and-far-east\/\">Africa<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They killed every person they met with the force of a blast from their mouth or a glance. According to Ulpian, the Romans had contact with these mysterious creatures during the war with Jugurtha, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-kingdom\/roman-kings\/\">king<\/a> of Numidia in the years 107-106 BCE.<\/p>\n<p>Some soldiers, trying to kill one of them by charging with a sword in hand, were killed by the gorgon&#8217;s killing gaze. This situation repeated itself until one of the Numidian riders killed the creature with a javelin. Then the victorious horseman brought the body of the gorgon to his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/gajusz-mariusz\/\">general Marius<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36808,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-114823","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/114823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/114823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=114823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}