medusa

Definizioni

1. animale planctonico acquatico con tentacoli urticanti, talvolta mortali per l'uomo; la sua classificazione scientifica è cnidari ( tassonomia)
2. nel mondo greco, una delle Gorgoni, che trasformava in pietra chiunque la osservasse

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Esempi

“1895, Adolf Furtwängler, Eugenie Strong (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art, 2010, →ISBN, page 201, On an Attic vase of the middle of the fifth century the head of Medusa in the hand of Perseus is represented as that of a beautiful woman free from any distortion. This led us to conclude (supra, p. 158) that Medusa must have been so represented at Athens in the greater arts even previous to this vase, for the vase-painters never invent such bold novelties for themselves.”

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