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“Look again.” Medusa, Survivor and Guardian.
The story behind the line. Early Greek art made Medusa a frightening mask, but later Greek and Roman artists gave her a calm, beautiful, sorrowful face. In Ovid's Roman version she was wronged in Athena's temple, and she was the one punished. Today many people look again and see a survivor, not a monster. Her name even means 'guardian'.
Medusa (Μέδουσα) was the one mortal among the three Gorgon sisters. Hesiod names her mother of Pegasus and Chrysaor, and Ovid tells that she was a maiden famed for her hair, wronged in Athena's temple and then punished for it. Her face later became a guardian on shields and temple walls. Today many people see in her a survivor who was blamed for what was done to her, and they wear her calm, watchful face as a sign of protection.
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