In Greek mythology, Medusa is one of the Gorgons — a trio of sisters with the ability to turn onlookers to stone. She was famously beheaded by the hero Perseus, who wielded her head in order to ...

So it is that Perseus finds himself agreeing to find and defeat the Gorgon - a monster called Medusa - a task that Polydectes believes to be impossible, since the Oracle has also prophesied that ...

Sicily, archaeologists have discovered a mask mold that, according to initial interpretations, could represent Medusa, the ...

Medusa was a Gorgon who had venomous snakes instead of hair. She could turn people to stone just by looking at them. Athena had not only told Perseus how to destroy the Gorgon, she had also given ...

Medusa is a gorgon recognised with snakes for hair, and is known for her anger and rage at the world. She was cursed by Athena to turn any man she looks at into stone, before being eventually ...

Imagine a snake — coiled, elusive, and steeped in meaning — emerging from the depth of the world's cultural history to leave ...

An Augustan Roman marble copy of the head of Medusa. GLYPTOTHEK MUSEUM IN MUNICH In Ovid's Roman retelling of the Greek myth, ...