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Medusa

/mɪˈdjuːsə/
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Medusa
The youngest and only mortal of the three gorgon sisters, killed by Perseus.
1895, Adolf Furtwängler, Eugenie Strong (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art, 2010, →ISBN, page 201, On an Attic vase…
It will be suggested here that the myth of Perseus, involving the decapitation of Medusa, is a narrative version of ritual.
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