person
Medusa
The Gorgon, here recalled in her beauty before her hair became snakes; loved by Neptune.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §2.15 Medusa
The snake-haired Gorgon whose look turned men to stone — emblem of a forbidding woman, softened by flattery.
- The Heroides §19 Medusa
The future Gorgon, loved by Neptune in her beauty 'before her hair was entwined with snakes.'
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.2 Medusa herself
Medusa, the Gorgon whose gaze turned men to stone; Ovid says she would lose her power on him, who longs in vain to be stone.
- Ibis §14 brother of Medusa
Medusa, the Gorgon; 'the brother of Medusa' is part of a disputed periphrasis for a curse Theseus once made.
- Ibis §17 stone-making Medusa
Medusa, whose gaze turned to stone; Perseus used her head to petrify many of the Cephenes (Ethiopians).
- Metamorphoses §4.90 Medusa
The one mortal Gorgon, snake-haired after Minerva's curse; her severed head turns to stone all who behold it.
- Sorrows §4.7 Medusa
The snake-haired Gorgon whose gaze turned men to stone; one of the impossibilities Ovid would sooner believe than that his friend forgot him.