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In Greek mythology, Medusa (Μέδουσα "guardian, protectress") was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair. [1]

208 relations: A Greek–English Lexicon, Acanthemblemaria medusa, Adolph Eduard Grube, Adriana Cavarero, Aegis, Aeschylus, Aethiopia, Alexander Mosaic, Alexander the Great, Amphisbaena, Andromeda (mythology), Antonio Canova, Apotropaic magic, Archetypal literary criticism, Argonautica, Arnold Böcklin, Arthur Willey, Athena, Atlas (mythology), Aubrey Beardsley, Auguste Rodin, Basilica Cistern, Benjamin De Casseres, Benjamin Matlack Everhart, Benvenuto Cellini, Berbers, Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus), Bothriopsis medusa, Bracha L. Ettinger, Browne, Byrne, Cannon (surname), Cap of invisibility, Caput Medusae, Caravaggio, Cardiodectes medusaeus, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Carl Linnaeus, Ceto, Charites, Charles Branch Wilson, Chrysaor, Chthonic, Cisthene (Mysia), Classical antiquity, Connotation, Coronamedusae, Countertenor, Cribb (surname), Csiromedusa, ..., Cult (religious practice), Czech Republic, Determinism, Detroit Institute of Arts, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Diomedes, Discomedusae, Dohalice, Eduard von Martens, Edward Burne-Jones, Erinyes, Euryale, Euryale (Gorgon), Feminism, Fisher (surname), Flag of Sicily, Frederick Bayer, Frederick Stratten Russell, Gaius Julius Hyginus, George Brettingham Sowerby I, George Brettingham Sowerby III, George Matsumoto, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Gianni Versace, Golding, Gorgon, Gorgoneion, Graeae, Greek hero cult, Greek mythology, Griselda Pollock, Hades, Harriet Hosmer, Henrik Nikolai Krøyer, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, Henry Bryant Bigelow, Hephaestus, Hermes, Herodotus, Hesiod, Hesperides, Homer, Horae, House of the Faun, Hradec Králové, Hubert Gerhard, Humbaba, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Jack London, James Hamilton McLean, Jane Ellen Harrison, Jean Bouillon, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Joan Cribb, João de Loureiro, Johannes Schmidt (biologist), John Singer Sargent, Joseph Campbell, Keppel Harcourt Barnard, Ladon (mythology), Leonardo da Vinci, Libya, Limnomedusae, Lisa-ann Gershwin, Logo, Lovell Augustus Reeve, Luca Giordano, Marie Jules César Savigny, Max Mapes Ellis, Maya (religion), Medea, Medon, Medusa (Bernini), Medusa (Caravaggio), Medusa (disambiguation), Medusa (Leonardo da Vinci painting), Medusa complex, Medusa's Head, Medusafissurella, Medusafissurella chemnitzii, Medusafissurella dubia, Medusafissurella melvilli, Medusafissurella salebrosa, Metamorphoses, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Meyers, Minerva, Monster, Narcomedusae, Nihilism, Odyssey, Opera, Otto Friedrich Bernhard von Linstow, Ovid, Oxford English Dictionary, Pablo Picasso, Palacio, Paul Klee, Pegasus, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Persée, Persephone, Perseus, Peter Paul Rubens, Petrifaction in mythology and fiction, Phallomedusa, Phallomedusa austrina, Phallomedusa solida, Pharsalia, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Philippe Quinault, Phorcys, Pierre et Gilles, Pindar, Polydectes, Polygnotos (vase painter), Pompeii, Poseidon, Precious coral, Prometheus Bound, Psychoanalysis, Red Sea, Red-figure pottery, Richard Kilburn, Richard Sternfeld, Robert Henry Gibbs, Roger Lancelyn Green, Romanticism, Sahara, Salvador Dalí, Scylla, Serifos, Sicily, Sigmund Freud, Species inquirenda, Stauromedusae, Stellamedusa, Stheno, Stygiomedusa, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, The Mutiny of the Elsinore (novel), Theodontius, Theogony, Thomas Bulfinch, Thoosa, Tiamat, Titan (mythology), Trachymedusae, Traditional Berber religion, Versace, Victor G. Springer, Wieser, William Smith (lexicographer), Winston Ponder, World War I, Zeidler, Zeus. Expand index (158 more) »

A Greek–English Lexicon

A Greek–English Lexicon, often referred to as Liddell & Scott, Liddell–Scott–Jones, or LSJ, is a standard lexicographical work of the Ancient Greek language.

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Acanthemblemaria medusa

The medusa blenny (Acanthemblemaria medusa) is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in coral reefs around Lesser Antilles, in the western central Atlantic ocean.

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Adolph Eduard Grube

Adolph Eduard Grube (born 18 May 1812 in Königsberg – died 23 June 1880 in Wrocław) was a German zoologist.

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Adriana Cavarero

Adriana Cavarero (born 1947 in Bra, Italy) is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker.

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Aegis

The aegis (αἰγίς aigis), as stated in the Iliad, is carried by Athena and Zeus, but its nature is uncertain.

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Aeschylus

Aeschylus (Αἰσχύλος Aiskhulos;; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian.

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Aethiopia

Ancient Aethiopia (Αἰθιοπία Aithiopia) first appears as a geographical term in classical documents in reference to the upper Nile region, as well as all certain areas south of the Sahara desert and south of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Alexander Mosaic

The Alexander Mosaic, dating from circa 100 BC, is a Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii.

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Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Aléxandros ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.

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Amphisbaena

The amphisbaena (plural: amphisbaenae) (αμφισβαίνια) is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.

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Andromeda (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Andromeda (Greek: Ἀνδρομέδα, Androméda or Ἀνδρομέδη, Andromédē) is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia.

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Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures.

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Apotropaic magic

Apotropaic magic (from Greek "to ward off" from "away" and "to turn") is a type of magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences, as in deflecting misfortune or averting the evil eye.

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Archetypal literary criticism

Archetypal literary criticism is a type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes (from the Greek archē, "beginning", and typos, "imprint") in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in literary work.

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Argonautica

The Argonautica (translit) is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC.

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Arnold Böcklin

Arnold Böcklin (16 October 182716 January 1901) was a Swiss symbolist painter.

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Arthur Willey

Arthur Willey FRS (9 October 1867, Scarborough, North Yorkshire – 26 December 1942) was a British-Canadian zoologist.

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Athena

Athena; Attic Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnā, or Ἀθηναία, Athēnaia; Epic: Ἀθηναίη, Athēnaiē; Doric: Ἀθάνα, Athānā or Athene,; Ionic: Ἀθήνη, Athēnē often given the epithet Pallas,; Παλλὰς is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare, who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Atlas (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Atlas (Ἄτλας, Átlas) was a Titan condemned to hold up the sky for eternity after the Titanomachy.

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Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 187216 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author.

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Auguste Rodin

François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor.

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Basilica Cistern

The Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnıcı – "Cistern Sinking Into Ground"), is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), Turkey.

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Benjamin De Casseres

Benjamin De Casseres (April 3, 1873 – December 7, 1945) (often DeCasseres) was an American journalist, critic, essayist and poet.

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Benjamin Matlack Everhart

Benjamin Matlack Everhart (born near West Chester, Pennsylvania, 24 April 1818; died in West Chester, 22 September 1904) was a United States mycologist.

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Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini (3 November 150013 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous autobiography and poetry.

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Berbers

Berbers or Amazighs (Berber: Imaziɣen, ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵗⴻⵏ; singular: Amaziɣ, ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵗ) are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa, primarily inhabiting Algeria, northern Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, northern Niger, Tunisia, Libya, and a part of western Egypt.

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Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)

The Bibliotheca (Βιβλιοθήκη Bibliothēkē, "Library"), also known as the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century AD.

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Bothriopsis medusa

Bothriopsis medusa is a venomous pitviper species found in Venezuela.

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Bracha L. Ettinger

Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (ברכה אטינגר, ברכה ליכטנברג-אטינגר) is an Israeli-born painter.

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Browne

Browne is a variant of the English surname Brown (surname), meaning "brown-haired" or "brown-skinned".

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Byrne

The most common meaning of Byrne (variations: Burns, Byrnes, O'Byrne) is a surname derived from the Irish name Ó Broin.

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Cannon (surname)

Cannon is a surname of Gaelic origin: in Ireland specifically Tir Chonaill (Donegal) (North West Ireland); also a Manx surname Notable people with the surname include.

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Cap of invisibility

In classical mythology, the Cap of Invisibility (Ἅϊδος κυνέην (H)aïdos kuneēn in Greek, lit. dog-skin of Hades) is a helmet or cap that can turn the wearer invisible.

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Caput Medusae

Caput Medusae is Latin for "head of Medusa".

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Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (28 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily from the early 1590s to 1610.

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Cardiodectes medusaeus

Cardiodectes medusaeus is a species of copepods in the family Pennellidae.

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (2 January 1835 – 18 January 1899) was a German zoologist.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Ceto

Ceto (Κητώ, Kētō, "sea monster"), is a primordial sea goddess in Greek mythology, the daughter of Gaia and Pontus.

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Charites

In Greek mythology, a Charis (Χάρις) or Grace is one of three or more minor goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility, together known as the Charites (Χάριτες) or Graces.

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Charles Branch Wilson

Charles Branch Wilson (20 October 1861 – 18 August 1941) was an American scientist, a marine biologist.

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Chrysaor

In Greek mythology, Chrysaor (Χρυσάωρ, Chrysáor, gen.: Χρυσάορος, Chrysáoros; English translation: "He who has a golden sword" (from χρυσός, "golden" and ἄορ, "sword")), the brother of the winged horse Pegasus, was often depicted as a young man, the son of Poseidon and the Gorgon Medusa.

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Chthonic

Chthonic (from translit, "in, under, or beneath the earth", from χθών italic "earth") literally means "subterranean", but the word in English describes deities or spirits of the underworld, especially in Ancient Greek religion.

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Cisthene (Mysia)

Cisthene or Kisthene (Κισθήνη) was a coastal town in ancient Aeolis, opposite Lesbos Island, in western Mysia; its mines were a source of copper.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BC and the 5th or 6th century AD centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world.

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Connotation

A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.

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Coronamedusae

Coronamedusae is a subclass of jellyfish in the class Scyphozoa.

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Countertenor

A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C4 to C6.

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Cribb (surname)

Cribb is a surname.

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Csiromedusa

Csiromedusa medeopolis is a species of hydrozoan described in 2010.

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Cult (religious practice)

Cult is literally the "care" (Latin cultus) owed to deities and to temples, shrines, or churches.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Determinism

Determinism is the philosophical theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes.

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Detroit Institute of Arts

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States.

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1849, originally published 1844 under a slightly different title) is an encyclopedia/biographical dictionary.

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Diomedes

Diomedes (Jones, Daniel; Roach, Peter, James Hartman and Jane Setter, eds. Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary. 17th edition. Cambridge UP, 2006. or) or Diomede (God-like cunning, advised by Zeus) is a hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War.

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Discomedusae

Discomedusae is a subclass of jellyfish in the class Scyphozoa.

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Dohalice

Dohalice is a village in the Czech Republic.

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Eduard von Martens

Eduard von Martens (18 April 1831 – 14 August 1904) also known as Carl or Karl Eduard von Martens, was a German zoologist.

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Edward Burne-Jones

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet (28 August 183317 June 1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

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Erinyes

In Greek mythology the Erinyes (sing. Erinys; Ἐρῑνύες, pl. of Ἐρῑνύς, Erinys), also known as the Furies, were female chthonic deities of vengeance; they were sometimes referred to as "infernal goddesses" (χθόνιαι θεαί).

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Euryale

In Greek mythology, Euryale (Εὐρυάλη "far-roaming") was the name of the following characters.

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Euryale (Gorgon)

Euryale (Εὐρυάλη "far-roaming"), in Greek mythology, was the second eldest of the Gorgons, the three sisters that have the hair of living, venomous snakes.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Fisher (surname)

Fisher is an English occupational name for one who obtained his living by fishing or living by a fishing weir.

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Flag of Sicily

The flag of Sicily (Bannera dâ Sicilia; Bandiera siciliana) was first adopted in 1282, after the successful Sicilian Vespers revolt against the king Charles I of Sicily.

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Frederick Bayer

Frederick Merkle Bayer (October 31, 1921 – October 2, 2007) was the emeritus curator of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, as well as a prominent marine biologist who specialized in the study of soft corals.

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Frederick Stratten Russell

Sir Frederick Stratten Russell (3 November 1897 – 5 June 1984) was an English marine biologist.

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Gaius Julius Hyginus

Gaius Julius Hyginus (64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the famous Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus.

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George Brettingham Sowerby I

George Brettingham Sowerby I (12 August 1788 – 26 July 1854) was a British naturalist, illustrator and conchologist.

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George Brettingham Sowerby III

George Brettingham Sowerby III (16 September 1843 – 31 January 1921) was a British conchologist, publisher, and illustrator.

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George Matsumoto

George Matsumoto (July 16, 1922 – June 28, 2016) was a Japanese-American architect and educator who is known for his Modernist designs.

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect.

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Gianni Versace

Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace (2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997) was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings, and clothes.

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Golding

Golding is an English surname.

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Gorgon

In Greek mythology, a Gorgon (plural: Gorgons, Γοργών/Γοργώ Gorgon/Gorgo) is a female creature.

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Gorgoneion

In Ancient Greece, the Gorgoneion (Greek: Γοργόνειον) was a special apotropaic amulet showing the Gorgon head, used most famously by the Olympian deities Athena and Zeus: both are said to have worn the gorgoneion as a protective pendant.

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Graeae

In Greek mythology the Graeae (English translation: "old women", "grey ones", or "grey witches"; alternatively spelled Graiai (Γραῖαι) and Graiae), also called the Grey Sisters, and the Phorcides ("daughters of Phorcys"), were three sisters who shared one eye and one tooth among them.

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Greek hero cult

Hero cults were one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

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Griselda Pollock

Griselda Pollock (born 11 March 1949) is a visual theorist, cultural analyst and scholar of international, postcolonial feminist studies in the visual arts.

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Hades

Hades (ᾍδης Háidēs) was the ancient Greek chthonic god of the underworld, which eventually took his name.

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Harriet Hosmer

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (October 9, 1830 – February 21, 1908) was a neoclassical sculptor, considered the most distinguished female sculptor in America during the 19th century.

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Henrik Nikolai Krøyer

Henrik Nikolai Krøyer (22 March 1799 – 14 November 1870) was a Danish zoologist.

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Henry Augustus Pilsbry

Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study.

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Henry Bryant Bigelow

Henry Bryant Bigelow (October 3, 1879 – December 11, 1967) was an American oceanographer and marine biologist.

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Hephaestus

Hephaestus (eight spellings; Ἥφαιστος Hēphaistos) is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes.

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Hermes

Hermes (Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian god in Greek religion and mythology, the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia, and the second youngest of the Olympian gods (Dionysus being the youngest).

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος, Hêródotos) was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (484– 425 BC), a contemporary of Thucydides, Socrates, and Euripides.

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Hesiod

Hesiod (or; Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

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Hesperides

In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (Ἑσπερίδες) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunset, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West".

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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Horae

In Greek mythology the Horae or Horai or Hours (Ὧραι, Hōrai,, "Seasons") were the goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of time.

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House of the Faun

The House of the Faun (Casa del Fauno), built during the 2nd century BC, was one of the largest and most impressive private residences in Pompeii, Italy, and housed many great pieces of art.

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Hradec Králové

Hradec Králové (Königgrätz) is a city of the Czech Republic, in the Hradec Králové Region of Bohemia.

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Hubert Gerhard

Hubert Gerhards (c. 1540/1550–1620; born 's-Hertogenbosch) was a Dutch sculptor.

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Humbaba

In Ancient Mesopotamian religion, Humbaba (Assyrian spelling), also spelled Huwawa (Sumerian spelling) and surnamed the Terrible, was a monstrous giant of immemorial age raised by Utu, the Sun.

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International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals.

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Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.

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James Hamilton McLean

James Hamilton McLean (born 1936) is an American malacologist, a biologist who studies mollusks.

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Jane Ellen Harrison

Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850 – 15 April 1928) was a British classical scholar, linguist.

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Jean Bouillon

Jean Bouillon (20 December 1926 – 29 March 2009) was a Belgian marine biologist and expert on Hydrozoa.

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist.

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Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste Lully (born Giovanni Battista Lulli,; 28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, instrumentalist, and dancer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France.

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Joan Cribb

Joan Winifred Cribb (born 1930) is an Australian botanist and mycologist.

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João de Loureiro

João de Loureiro (1717, Lisbon – 18 October 1791) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and botanist.

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Johannes Schmidt (biologist)

Ernst Johannes Schmidt (2 January 1877 – 21 February 1933) was a Danish biologist credited with discovering in 1920 that eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn.

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John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury.

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Joseph Campbell

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion.

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Keppel Harcourt Barnard

Keppel Harcourt Barnard (31 March 1887 – 22 September 1964) was a South African zoologist and museum director.

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Ladon (mythology)

Ladon (Greek: Λάδων; gen.: Λάδωνος Ladonos) is a monster in Greek mythology.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

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Libya

Libya (ليبيا), officially the State of Libya (دولة ليبيا), is a sovereign state in the Maghreb region of North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.

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Limnomedusae

Limnomedusae is an order of hydrozoans.

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Lisa-ann Gershwin

Lisa-ann Gershwin is a biologist based in Launceston, Tasmania, who has described over 200 species of jellyfish, and written and co-authored several non-fiction books about cnidaria including Stung! (2013) and Jellyfish - A Natural History (2016).

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Logo

A logo (abbreviation of logotype, from λόγος logos "word" and τύπος typos "imprint") is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.

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Lovell Augustus Reeve

Lovell Augustus Reeve (19 April 1814 – 18 November 1865) was an English conchologist and publisher.

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Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 12 January 1705) was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching.

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Marie Jules César Savigny

Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (5 April 1777 – 5 October 1851) was a French zoologist.

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Max Mapes Ellis

Max Mapes Ellis, (December 3, 1887 - August 26, 1953) was an American physiologist.

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Maya (religion)

Maya (Devanagari: माया, IAST: māyā), literally "illusion" or "magic", has multiple meanings in Indian philosophies depending on the context.

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Medea

In Greek mythology, Medea (Μήδεια, Mēdeia, მედეა) was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios.

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Medon

In mythology and history, there were at least eight men named Medon (Μέδων, gen.: Μέδοντος).

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Medusa (Bernini)

Medusa is a marble sculpture of the eponymous character from the classical myth.

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Medusa (Caravaggio)

Caravaggio painted two versions of Medusa, the first in 1596 and the other presumably in 1597.

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Medusa (disambiguation)

Medusa is one of the three Gorgons in Greek mythology.

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Medusa (Leonardo da Vinci painting)

Medusa is either of two paintings described in Giorgio Vasari's Life of Leonardo da Vinci as being among Leonardo's earliest works.

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Medusa complex

Medusa complex is a psychological complex revolving around the petrification or freezing of human emotion, and drawing on the classical myth of the Medusa.

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Medusa's Head

"Medusa's Head" (Das Medusenhaupt, 1922), by Sigmund Freud, is a very short, posthumously published essay on the subject of the Medusa Myth.

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Medusafissurella

Medusafissurella is a genus of minute deepwater keyhole limpets, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

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Medusafissurella chemnitzii

Medusafissurella chemnitzii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

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Medusafissurella dubia

Medusafissurella dubia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.

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Medusafissurella melvilli

Medusafissurella melvilli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

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Medusafissurella salebrosa

Medusafissurella salebrosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

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Metamorphoses

The Metamorphoses (Metamorphōseōn librī: "Books of Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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Meyers

Meyers is a surname of English origin; many branches of the Meyers family trace their origins to Anglo-Saxon England.

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Minerva

Minerva (Etruscan: Menrva) was the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare, although it is noted that the Romans did not stress her relation to battle and warfare as the Greeks would come to, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy.

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Monster

A monster is a creature which produces fear or physical harm by its appearance or its actions.

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Narcomedusae

Narcomedusae is an order of hydrozoans in the subclass Trachylinae.

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Nihilism

Nihilism is the philosophical viewpoint that suggests the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia, in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Otto Friedrich Bernhard von Linstow

Otto Friedrich Bernhard von Linstow (17 October 1842 – 3 May 1916) was a German high-ranking medical officer (Oberstabsarzt und Regimentsarzt) and helminthologist.

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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Palacio

Palacio is a Basque surname.

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Paul Klee

Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss German artist.

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Pegasus

Pegasus (Πήγασος, Pḗgasos; Pegasus, Pegasos) is a mythical winged divine stallion, and one of the most recognized creatures in Greek mythology.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential.

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Persée

Persée (Perseus) is a tragédie lyrique with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault, first performed on 18 April 1682 by the Opéra at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.

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Persephone

In Greek mythology, Persephone (Περσεφόνη), also called Kore ("the maiden"), is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter and is the queen of the underworld.

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Perseus

In Greek mythology, Perseus (Περσεύς) is the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty, who, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, was the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles.

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Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist.

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Petrifaction in mythology and fiction

Petrifaction, or petrification as defined as turning people to stone, is also a common theme in folklore and mythology, as well as in some works of modern fiction.

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Phallomedusa

Phallomedusa is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc.

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Phallomedusa austrina

Phallomedusa austrina is a species of small, air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Phallomedusidae.

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Phallomedusa solida

Phallomedusa solida is a species of small, air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Phallomedusidae.

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Pharsalia

De Bello Civili (On the Civil War), more commonly referred to as the Pharsalia, is a Roman epic poem by the poet Lucan, detailing the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pompey the Great.

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Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller

Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (April 25, 1725 – January 5, 1776) was a German zoologist.

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Philippe Quinault

Philippe Quinault (3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.

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Phorcys

In Greek mythology, Phorcys (Φόρκυς, Phorkus) is a primordial sea god, generally cited (first in Hesiod) as the son of Pontus and Gaia (Earth).

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Pierre et Gilles

Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, also known as Pierre et Gilles, are French artists and romantic partners.

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Pindar

Pindar (Πίνδαρος Pindaros,; Pindarus; c. 522 – c. 443 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.

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Polydectes

In Greek mythology, King Polydectès (Πολυδέκτης) was the ruler of the island of Seriphos.

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Polygnotos (vase painter)

Polygnotos (active approx. 450 - 420 BCE), a Greek vase-painter in Athens, is considered one of the most important vase painters of the red figure style of the high-classical period.

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Pompeii

Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei.

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Poseidon

Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth.

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Precious coral

Precious coral, or red coral, is the common name given to a genus of marine corals, Corallium.

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Prometheus Bound

Prometheus Bound (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης, Promētheus Desmōtēs) is an Ancient Greek tragedy.

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.

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Red Sea

The Red Sea (also the Erythraean Sea) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.

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Red-figure pottery

Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting.

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Richard Kilburn

Richard (‘Dick’) Neil Kilburn (Port Elizabeth, 7 January 1942– 26 July 2013) was a South African malacologist.

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Richard Sternfeld

Richard Sternfeld (8 February 1884 in Bielefeld – 1943 in Auschwitz) was a German-Jewish herpetologist, who was responsible for describing over forty species of amphibians and reptiles, particularly from Germany's African and Pacific colonies (i.e. modern-day Tanzania, Cameroon, Togo, Namibia and Papua New Guinea).

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Robert Henry Gibbs

Robert Henry Gibbs, Jr.

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Roger Lancelyn Green

Roger (Gilbert) Lancelyn Green (2 November 1918 – 8 October 1987) was a British biographer and children's writer.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Sahara

The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى,, 'the Great Desert') is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquess of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

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Scylla

In Greek mythology, Scylla (Σκύλλα,, Skylla) was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis.

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Serifos

Serifos (Σέριφος, Seriphus, also Seriphos; formerly Serpho or Serphanto) is a Greek island municipality in the Aegean Sea, located in the western Cyclades, south of Kythnos and northwest of Sifnos.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Species inquirenda

In biological classification, a species inquirenda is a species of doubtful identity requiring further investigation.

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Stauromedusae

Stauromedusae are the stalked jellyfishes.

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Stellamedusa

Stellamedusa is a genus of jellyfish.

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Stheno

In Greek mythology, Stheno (or; Greek: Σθενώ, English translation: "forceful"), was the eldest of the Gorgons, vicious female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and "hair" made of living venomous snakes.

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Stygiomedusa

Stygiomedusa is a genus of giant deep sea jellyfish in the family Ulmaridae.

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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is an American dictionary of English published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969.

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The Mutiny of the Elsinore (novel)

The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a novel by the American writer Jack London first published in 1914.

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Theodontius

Theodontius was the author of a now lost Latin work on mythology.

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Theogony

The Theogony (Θεογονία, Theogonía,, i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods") is a poem by Hesiod (8th – 7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 700 BC.

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Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 – May 27, 1867) was an American writer born in Newton, Massachusetts, best known for the book Bulfinch's Mythology.

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Thoosa

In Greek mythology, Thoosa or Thoösa (translit) was a sea nymph whose name derives from the word thoos, meaning "swift".

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Tiamat

In the religion of ancient Babylon, Tiamat (𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳 or, Greek: Θαλάττη Thaláttē) is a primordial goddess of the salt sea, mating with Abzû, the god of fresh water, to produce younger gods.

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Titan (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek: Τιτάν, Titán, Τiτᾶνες, Titânes) and Titanesses (or Titanides; Greek: Τιτανίς, Titanís, Τιτανίδες, Titanídes) were members of the second generation of divine beings, descending from the primordial deities and preceding the Olympians.

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Trachymedusae

Trachymedusae belong to the phylum Cnidaria and the class Hydrozoa, among the 30 genera are 5 families containing around 50 species in all, the family Rhopalonematidae has the greatest diversity.

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Traditional Berber religion

The traditional Berber religion is the ancient and native set of beliefs and deities adhered to by the Berber autochthones of North Africa.

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Versace

Gianni Versace S.p.A. usually referred to simply as Versace, is an Italian luxury fashion company and trade name founded by Gianni Versace in 1978.

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Victor G. Springer

Victor Gruschka Springer (born in Jacksonville, Florida on 2 June 1928) is Senior Scientist emeritus, Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is a specialist in the anatomy, classification, and distribution of fishes, with a special interest in tropical marine shorefishes.

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Wieser

Wieser is a surname.

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William Smith (lexicographer)

Sir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer.

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Winston Ponder

Winston F. Ponder (born 1941) is a noted malacologist from New Zealand who has named and described many marine and freshwater animals, especially micromolluscs.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Zeidler

Zeidler is a German surname.

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Zeus

Zeus (Ζεύς, Zeús) is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa

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