concept

Perseus and Medusa

Myth & story

The Hellenic episode of the hero who beheads Medusa by mirrored sight. Not Perseus the constellation alone, and not kibisis as a bag alone.

Hellenic religion

  • Perseus and Medusa appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias recounts Perseus and Medusa among Argive hero speech, gorgoneion marks, and local image lore. A named Perseus-and-Medusa telling in that periegesis, not perseus constellation flatten and not gorgoneion object alone.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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