But in truth, Head of a Gorgon, a chronological story told ... the sexual violence at the center of the ancient Greek myth of Medusa with emotional, physical and raw language.

Archaeologists exploring the ancient ruins of Finziade, the last Greek colony on the ... it is “probably depicting Medusa.” In mythology, Medusa was a Gorgon, a monstrous creature with a ...

Revisiting Greek ... Gorgons depicts with outrage the unpredictability and cruelty of the Olympian gods that the Greeks took for granted. That transformation occurs more than halfway through “Me ...

Medusa was one of three Gorgons, all of which were women who had wings and also had venomous serpents for hair. Those who gazed upon a Gorgon would be turned to stone, and while Perseus would ...

It’s easy to be mesmerized by Greek mythology: the gods and goddesses ... of course, Zeus. Medusa — one of the three Gorgon sisters said to have had hair made of live, venomous snakes ...

In Greek mythology, Medusa is one of the three Gorgons. According to myth, Medusa has hair made of serpents and turns anyone who looks at her into stone. The mythology tells of how Athena ...

To most people, Medusa is known as a snake-haired figure in Greek mythology who could turn those ... Medusa was one of three Gorgon sisters alongside siblings Stheno and Euryale, but she was ...

Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores ... By Alexandra Alter For centuries, the Greek Gorgon Medusa has been cast as a vicious monster ...