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Having gone to the trouble of creating a Perseus model, it seemed a shame not to use it again...  so here we have the famouis story of Persus and Medusa, …

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Having gone to the trouble of creating a Perseus model, it seemed a shame not to use it again...  so here we have the famouis story of Persus and Medusa, and how he avoided her petrifying gaze using his highly burnished shield.

Medusa is rather a tragic figure; she was once a beautiful maiden with flowing golden locks who was cursed for profaning the temple of of Athena; her locks became snakes, her skin developed scales and her gaze turned people to stone. She was shunned by all and went into hiding in Africa before being caught unawares and slain by Persues...all because of an action that wasn't her fault in the first place!  (She was ravaged by the sea-god Poseidon in the temple; he got away scot free and she was cursed )... 

The manifest fickle capriciousness of the Gods! « Less