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Medusa explores how and why the mythical figure of the gorgon has become one of the most important and enduring ideas in human history.
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01-April-2013
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Medusa, literally, petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal culture she was a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed; for Dante she was the erotic power that could destroy men; Freud saw in her hair a nest of terrifying penises signalling castration. Yet in our time Medusa's reputation has improved: feminists see her as a noble victim of patriarchy, and the designer Versace celebrates the lure of her mysterious face in a logo that stares at us from his ads for men's underwear, haute couture and exotic dinnerware. In our modern culture she is once again a powerplayer demanding to be recognized; Medusa, it seems, still has the power to transfix us. David Leeming's Medusa explores how and why the mythical figure of the gorgon has become one of the most important and enduring ideas in human history.

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    ISBN-13
    9781780230955
    Author
    David Leeming
    Publisher
    Reaktion Books
    Published
    01-April-2013
    Format
    Hardback
    Pages
    224

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    Medusa, literally, petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal culture she was a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed; for Dante she was the erotic power that could destroy men; Freud saw in her hair a nest of terrifying penises signalling castration. Yet in our time Medusa's reputation has improved: feminists see her as a noble victim of patriarchy, and the designer Versace celebrates the lure of her mysterious face in a logo that stares at us from his ads for men's underwear, haute couture and exotic dinnerware. In our modern culture she is once again a powerplayer demanding to be recognized; Medusa, it seems, still has the power to transfix us. David Leeming's Medusa explores how and why the mythical figure of the gorgon has become one of the most important and enduring ideas in human history.

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