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Classical Mythology, 7th Edition - obinfonet: dia logou

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PERSEUS AND THE LEGENDS OF ARGOS 511<br />

Medusa, by Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). Marble, 1854; height 27 in. Hosmer emphasizes<br />

the beauty and the pathos of Medusa, whereas most artists, ancient and modern, have<br />

preferred to focus on the horror of the Gorgon's head. A visitor to her studio said, "To<br />

fulfill the true idea of the old myth, Medusa should be wonderfully beautiful, but I never<br />

saw her so represented before." (© The Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders' Society Purchase,<br />

Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund.)<br />

delivered the hero dear to her from these labors, she made the music of the flutes<br />

with its many notes, so that with instruments she might imitate the loud-sounding<br />

lamentation that was forced from the hungry jaws of Euryale. 8 This was the goddess'<br />

invention, but she gave it to mortals and called it "the music of many<br />

heads."

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