Meaning of Medousa | Babel Free
Definitions
Noun. [B1]
Examples
“Figures like⟳ Medousa and Pegasos wear⟳ wings.”
“The same time period also offers our first look⟳ at Medousa and her family, that is, Medousa shown intact and, at her side, her children, Pegasos and Chrysaor, who will in fact emerge⟳ from her neck only after her head has been cut⟳ off. We find⟳ this composition on a shield-band from Olympia (B 1687: wings, but apparently no snakes) and again on the famous Medousa pediment from the Temple of Artemis on Kerkyra (no #), where the wings and snakes are both in evidence.”
“Superman wasn’t sure what disturbed him more, her actions or her lack of remorse. He knew that Diana had slain monsters before, like⟳ Medousa or the Scylla, but Max Lord had not been some mythological Greek monstrosity; he had only been a man, albeit an evil one.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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