The vessel has a wide shallow rim and two horizontal handles on the body. In red, black, and yellow there is a scene in two tiers. The lower tier shows two figures holding shields and spears and ...

No matter how powerful generative AI becomes, writer Ted Chiang says it will never create true art. Chiang is one of the most admired science-fiction authors writing today, best known for the ...

This is a silver phalera, a medal that was awarded for bravery around CE105 showing the face of the gorgon Medusa. In Greek mythology, the three gorgons were sisters and dreadful monsters ...

A head visible from the jawline up. They have tubular hair to their chin, high round ears, and short horns. They have a wide smile with protruding fangs and their tongue sticking out. They have a wide ...

Despite appearances, Medusa has a tragic tale in Greek myth. Known as a Gorgon with snake hair, her story is best told by Beard in Women and Power: "There are many ancient variations in Medusa's ...

In Greek myths, the Gorgon Medusa had snakes on her head instead of hair, and a glance at her turned you to stone. Hercules had to kill the Lernean Hydra, a creature with nine snakelike heads ...

Their wall paintings, the likes of which are rarely found in the region, feature characters like Demeter, goddess of earth and grain, as well as the head of Medusa, the infamous gorgon whose gaze ...

Stockholm’s subway system is truly one of a kind. One hundred stations, each with unique art on its platform, walls or waiting hall. Since 1957 artists have played a key role when new stations have ...

In ancient Greek mythology, Medusa is the most famous of three monstrous sisters known as the Gorgons. The earliest known record about the story of Medusa and the Gorgons can be found in Hesiod’s ...