The story goes that 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 before giving it to the goddess ...

“Another thing we did was show everybody the statue of Medusa holding Perseus’ head — the inverted story,” Rick says of Luciano Garbati’s 2008 statue that reimagines and reverses Medusa ...

A group of young student archaeologists were excavating the Huerta de Otero site in Mérida, Spain when they made a stunning ...

Later, Perseus cut her head off while she slept ... pushed on survivors by society — echoing the story of Athena holding Medusa responsible rather than Poseidon. “Medusa is a woman doubly ...

Article continues below In the story, it reads that Perseus was sent by King Polydectes of Seiphus on an impossible mission – to collect the head of Medusa. The son of Zeus set out on his quest ...

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 ...

Even the severed head of the gorgon could turn you into stone. Medusa was worse than nuclear waste. The constellation Perseus appears to be flying high in the western sky, towing the head of ...

Influencers popularised a photo of Luciano Garbati’s 2008 sculpture of Medusa holding Perseus’s head, which reversed the roles of Benvenuto Cellini’s famous 16th-century statue. A warning ...