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Classics
1020: Classical Mythology
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Perseus and Bellerophon
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Baby Perseus in the chest, with Danae & Acrisius
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Danae, Perseus, and the chest being built
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Map of mainland Greece
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Hera (?) and Perseus, BF by Nessos painter
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Perseus beheads Medusa on a metope from Selinus (Sicily), also Athena and Pegasus
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Perseus sneaks up on sleeping Medusa, with Athena and Hermes
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Perseus, Medusa, and Athena
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Perseus carries off the Gorgon's head in his kibisis
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[Upper image]: Perseus with the Gorgon's head, terracotta plaque from Thermon
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Bronze statuette of Perseus and the head of Medusa by B. Cellini, Piazza della
Signoria, Florence : note attributes (scimitar, kibisis, winged hat & sandals)
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Perseus pursued by Gorgons, BF vase by Dinos
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Gorgons on proto-Attic amphora from Eleusis, ca. 700 B.C.
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Closeup of proto-Attic Gorgons from Eleusis
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BF Gorgons by the Nessos painter
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Medusa with Pegasus, metope from temple at Gela (Sicily), ca. 525 B.C.
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Perseus rescues Andromeda, Roman fresco from Pompeii, A.D. 79, now in Naples
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Perseus and Andromeda with Pegasus, by P. P. Rubens
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Bellerophon fights the Chimaera (RF vase)
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Bronze Chimaera from Arezzo, Etruscan, 5th c. B.C., now in Florence
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