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Athena wore Gorgon
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Athena
Athena, holding an owl, wears the ancient form of the Gorgon head on her aegis, as the huge serpent who guards the golden fleece regurgitates Jason; cup by Douris, Classical Greece, early fifth century BC—Musei Vaticani. ... "Athena, by the time she appears in art," Jane Ellen Harrison had remarked, "has completely shed her animal form, has reduced the shapes she once wore of snake and bird to attributes, but occasionally in black-figure vase-paintings she still appears with wings." -
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Gorgon
The Gorgon wore a belt of serpents that intertwined as a clasp, confronting each other. ... Athena wears the ancient form of the Gorgon head on her aegis, as the huge serpent who guards the golden fleece regurgitates Jason; cup by Douris, Classical Greece, early fifth century BC - Musei Vaticani -
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Medusa
The inclusion of Medusa in the center implies the protection of the goddess Athena, who wore the Gorgon's likeness on her aegis, as said above. -
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Lemnian Athena
Athena wears an unusual, cross-slung aegis decorated with the Gorgon's head. -
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List of Saint Seiya Episode.G characters
Once he finds his new plan, he swears revenge against his brother and all the Saints of Athena. ... They discover a gorgon, which has been revived when the Titans awakes. -
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Trojan War
To this another replied by Athena's contrivance: ... | Heroes Heracles and his Labors Achilles and the Trojan War Odysseus and the Odyssey Jason and the Argonauts Perseus and Medusa/Gorgon Oedipus and Thebes Theseus and the Minotaur Triptolemus and the Eleusinian Mysteries | -
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Cultural depictions of Medusa and gorgons
Medusa's goggling eyes, fangs and protruding tongue head were depicted as mounted on the shield of Athena herself. ... ↑ Medusa the Gorgon - Atmosfear.com.au -
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Serpent (symbolism)
The Gorgon was placed at the highest point and central of the relief on the Parthenon. ... In The Library, Apollodorus claimed that Athena gave Asclepius a vial of blood from the Gorgons. -
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Aegis
There is also the origin myth that represents the ægis as a fire-breathing chthonic monster similar to the Chimera, which was slain and flayed by Athena, who afterwards wore its skin as a cuirass (Diodorus Siculus iii. 70), or as a chlamys. ... A vestige of that appears in a portrait of Alexander the Great in a fresco from Pompeii dated to the first century B.C., which shows the image of the head of a woman on his armor that resembles the Gorgon. -
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Rider (Fate/stay night)
Jealous of the sisters' allure, Athena goaded the Gorgon's worshippers into attacking them, forcing the sisters to take refuge on the Shapeless Isle.
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Athena wore Gorgon