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Medusa and her Gorgon sisters Euryale and Stheno were usually described as daughters of Phorcys and Ceto; of the three, only Medusa was mortal. Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus , who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon [ 5 ] until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her ...
Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of the Medusa; 1940–1943), a play by German dramatist Georg Kaiser; Wreck of the Medusa by Alexander McKee, a narrative account of the final voyage, shipwreck and aftermath originally published in 1976 under the title Death Raft and reprinted in 2007. McKee draws upon multiple sources and provides analysis of ...
Medusa, one of the Gorgons. [1] Medusa, one of the Hesperides and the sister of Aegle, Hesperie and Arethusa. [2] [3] Medusa, a Mycenaean princess as the daughter of King Sthenelus and Queen Nicippe (also called Antibia [4] or Archippe [5]), daughter of Pelops. She was the sister of Eurystheus and Alcyone. [6]
Of particular interest is the famous Medusa pediment (early sixth century BC) from the temple of Artemis in Corfu (Fig. 6), which shows a winged-Medusa in the characteristic Knielauf (kneeling-running) position, with two snakes wrapped around her waist, like the Gorgons described in the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles. [64]
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The Gorgons Stheno and Euryale were immortal, whereas their Gorgon sister Medusa was mortal. [8] The only story involving them is their pursuit of Perseus after he has beheaded Medusa. The Hesiodic Shield of Heracles (c. late seventh–mid sixth century BC) describes the two Gorgons' pursuit of Perseus, as depicted on Heracles' shield:
Dozens of tiny, tentacled creatures were recently discovered living in the Gulf of Mexico. The small sea dwellers, it turns out, belong to a previously unknown species of “crawling” jellyfish ...
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