In Hesiod’s Theogony, where did the Gorgons live according to the poem’s geography?

In Hesiod’s Theogony, the Gorgons lived beyond Oceanus, at the far edge of the world.

The Theogony, a Greek poem traditionally attributed to Hesiod, places the Gorgons in a remote region beyond Oceanus, the enormous world-encircling river of early Greek cosmology. The location emphasizes their distance from the familiar lands of gods and heroes.

Hesiod names the three Gorgons as Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa and identifies them as daughters of Phorcys and Ceto. He also distinguishes Medusa as mortal and says that Perseus later killed her.

Later retellings relocate or reinterpret the Gorgons’ home, sometimes connecting it with the far West or northern lands. Those variations explain why modern summaries may give different geographic descriptions, but “beyond Oceanus” is the wording associated with Hesiod’s poem.