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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4394241, member: 5833"]Perhaps a bit less snaky than some, but a classic <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/medusa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/medusa" rel="nofollow">Medusa</a> nonetheless. The link at the bottom of this article leads to one at the Met that was written in conjunction with their exhibition <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2018/dangerous-beauty" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2018/dangerous-beauty" rel="nofollow">Dangerous Beauty</a>. Mount again looks turn of the 20th century. See there is a spot of damage to the decoration.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=17467]@Simona Buhus[/USER] Your tale has many elements that are common in mythological stories, but does not sound like anything I have ever read about Medusa. She was born a Gorgon, the only mortal one of the three. If you read the Met article, you will see that her beauty was something that evolved in artistic depictions. She started out more like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]370536[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4394241, member: 5833"]Perhaps a bit less snaky than some, but a classic [URL='https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/medusa']Medusa[/URL] nonetheless. The link at the bottom of this article leads to one at the Met that was written in conjunction with their exhibition [URL='https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2018/dangerous-beauty']Dangerous Beauty[/URL]. Mount again looks turn of the 20th century. See there is a spot of damage to the decoration. [USER=17467]@Simona Buhus[/USER] Your tale has many elements that are common in mythological stories, but does not sound like anything I have ever read about Medusa. She was born a Gorgon, the only mortal one of the three. If you read the Met article, you will see that her beauty was something that evolved in artistic depictions. She started out more like this: [ATTACH=full]370536[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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