Bronze Roman Medusa head 1st C. CE
"[Depicted on the quiver of Herakles (Heracles) :] There Perseus slew Medousa (Medusa) gorgon-eyed by the stars' baths and utmost bounds of earth and fountains of deep-flowing Okeanos (Oceanus), where night in the far west meets the setting sun."
-Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 10. 190 ff
Bronze Roman Medusa head 1st C. CE. National Roman Museum – Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome | . |
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