Referrals to Medusa in Greek Literature
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- Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.21.5 - 2.21.6
Medusa's reign over the Libyans around Lake Tritonis
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- Apollodorus, Library and Epitome 2.3.2
Pegasus, offspring of Medusa and Poseidon
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- Apollodorus, Library and Epitome 2.4.2
Perseus beheading Medusa with Athena's help
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- Apollodorus, Library and Epitome 2.4.3
Perseus saving Andromeda, returning with Medusa's head
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- Apollodorus, Library and Epitome 3.10.3
Medusa's blood offering life or death
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- Hesiod, Theogony 270 - 305
Poseidon laying with Medusa in a field
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- Hesiod, Works and Days 59 - 80
Zeus' creation of Pandora, in punishment of mankind
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- P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses Book 4, 604 - Roman
Gore creating snakes in Libyan desert
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- P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses Book 4, 754 - Roman
Creation of coral, Medusa in Athena's temple
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