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My references this week were :-

1.    

 Probably the feminine presentparticiple of medein, "to protect, rule over" (American Heritage Dictionary; compare Medon, Medea, Diomedes, etc.). If not, it is from the same root, and is formedafter the participle. OED 2001 revision, s.v.; medein in LSJ.

2.     ^ as in Hesiod, Theogony 270, and Pseudo-Apollodorus Bibliotheke,

1.10.

3.     ^ "From Gorgon and Ceto, Sthenno, Euryale, Medusa".

4.     ^ Bullfinch, Thomas. "Bulfinch

Mythology – Age of Fable – Stories of Gods & Heroes". Retrieved 2007-09-07. ...andturning his face away, he held up the Gorgon's head. Atlas, with all his bulk,was changed into stone.

5.     ^ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 793–799; Edited and Translated by Alan H. Sommerstein.

"Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound", (LoebClassical Library) Harvard University Press, 2008, p. 531.

6.     ^ (Pythian Ode 12). Noted by Marjorie J. Milne in discussing

a red-figured vase inthe style of Polygnotos,ca. 450–30 BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Milne noted that "It is one of the earliest illustrationsof the story to show the Gorgon not as a hideous monster but as a beautifulwoman. Art in this respect lagged behind poetry." (Marjorie J. Milne,"Perseus and Medusa on an Attic Vase" The Metropolitan Museum ofArt Bulletin New Series, 4.5 (January 1946, pp. 126–130)126.p.)

7.     ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.798:

"the Sovereign of the Sea attained her love in chaste Minerva'stemple" (Brookes

More translation) or"in Minerva’s temple Neptune, lord of the Ocean, ravished her" (Frank

Justus Miller translation, as revised by G. P. Goold) Whether Ovid means that Medusa was a willing participant isunclear. Hard, p. 61, says she was "seduced"; Grimal, s.v. Gorgons, p.174, says she was "ravished"; Tripp, s.v. Medusa, p. 363 says she"yielded". In the original Latin text, Ovid uses the verb"vitiasse" which is translated to mean "violate" or"corrupt" line 798.

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Mortals. I hope this has given you some insight into Medusa and the myth andhow it related to current times. Next time I will be covering a true crimesubject – the case of the missing Heiress.

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