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Perseus

Given an errand meant to be fatal, the head of a Gorgon whose gaze turned people to stone, and armed by the gods well enough to survive it. He went on using the head long after he had it.

Perseus
Perseus stands over Medusa's headless body, holding her severed, snake-haired head aloft in triumph. Bronze sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini, 1545–1554, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence (photographed for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica).

The journey

2 myths · 2 places

  1. 1 Perseus and Medusa Argos
  2. 2 Perseus and Andromeda Joppa
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