[2] Jane Ellen Harrison pointed out[3] that "blameless" (ἀμύμων) was an epithet of the heroized dead, who were venerated and appeased at shrines.
John Pairman Brown has suggested that Gorgythion's name "surely echoes the Gergithes; the 'Gergithes remnants of the Teucrians' are projected back into the heroic age as individual antagonists".
And of the greater number fierce Mars indeed has relaxed the knees under them..."[6] Gorgythion is referred to at his death as "...the brave son of Priam".
[8] In the Fabulae of Gaius Julius Hyginus, fable 90 consists wholly of a list of "Sons and daughters of Priam to the number of fifty-five", in which Gorgythion is included.
"[11] In Alexander Pope's looser but more poetic translation (1715–1720), the death scene reads[12] – The weapon flies At Hector's breast, and sings along the skies: He miss’d the mark; but pierced Gorgythio’s heart, And drench’d in royal blood the thirsty dart.