Through his agents, he managed to acquire such pieces as the Medusa Rondanini, the Barberini Faun, and, in 1813, the figures from the Aphaea temple on Aegina.

Through his agents, he managed to acquire such pieces as the Medusa Rondanini, the Barberini Faun, and, in 1813, the figures from the Aphaea temple on Aegina.

To the most famous sculptures of Classical Greece belong the portrait of Homer ( 460 BC ), the Statue of Diomedes ( 430 BC ), the Medusa Rondanini ( 440 BC ), the Funeral stele of Mnesarete ( 380 BC ), the Statue of Eirene ( 370 BC ), the Alexander Rondanini ( ca.

King Ludwig I managed to acquire such famous pieces as the Medusa Rondanini, the Barberini Faun and the figures from the Temple of Aphaea on Aegina for the Glyptothek.

Davros and the Daleks plan to detonate a " reality bomb ", a wavelength transmitted by the stolen planets which cancels out the electrical field binding atoms, reducing the whole of creation, even other Universes due to the Medusa Cascade being a rift, to nothingness except for the Daleks and the Crucible, in order to achieve " ultimate victory ".

After the departure of Governor Schmaltz ( he had taken office at the end of the wreck of the Medusa ), Roger Baron particularly encourages the development of the peanut, " the earth pistachio ", whose monoculture would be long because of the severe economic backwardness of Senegal.

* " The Medusa ", a song by The Haunted from The Dead Eye

Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Phorcys and Ceto as Echidna, The Gorgons ( Euryale, Stheno, and the famous Medusa ), The Graeae ( Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo ), and Ladon, also called the Drakon Hesperios (" Hesperian Dragon ", or dragon of the Hesperides ).

Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Phorcys and Ceto as Echidna, The Gorgons ( Euryale, Stheno, and the famous Medusa ), The Graeae ( Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo ), and Ladon, also called the Drakon Hesperios (" Hesperian Dragon ", or dragon of the Hesperides ).

Her name means " Gorgon Slayer ", a tribute to her father who killed Medusa, the mortal Gorgon.

Each release contained a single episode: " Medusa Bug ", " Wizards, Warriors, and a Word from Our Sponsor ", " The Great Brain Robbery ", and " Talent Night ".

The UK received two VHS releases, but with two episodes each: Volume 1 contained " The Tearing " and " Racing the Clock ", while Volume two had " The Quick and the Fed " and " Medusa Bug ".

Medusa was refurbished over the off-season and returned in 2009 as " Bizarro ", a new incarnation of the same ride.

Their love of ska, reggae and early lovers rock inspired such original tracks as " King ", " Madam Medusa ", " Food for Thought ", " Signing Off " and " One in Ten ".< ref >" UB40.

* Hydro-Man appears in the Fantastic Four episode " And the Wind Cries Medusa ", voiced by Brad Garrett.

Medusa appears in the Marvel 1602 miniseries: 1602: Fantastick Four as a member of the " Four Who Are Frightful ", and the Wizard's lover.

* Medusa appears in the 1981 Spider-Man cartoon episode " Under The Wizard's Spell ", voiced by B. J.

Géricault's Study for " The Raft of the Medusa ", pen and brown ink, 17. 6 cm × 24. 5 cm, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille | Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France

She also won the heart of a young Arabian prince in the episode " Who's Sari Now ", the force of the wind blowing her hair ( making her look a lot like Medusa ) ruins it to the point that the prince is disgusted by her.

* 4010: In the episode of Justice League Unlimited, " This Little Piggy ", Batman and Zatanna request an audience with Medusa in her magic prison, for information on the whereabouts of Circe, who has transformed Wonder Woman into a pig.

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Roman artefacts have been found dating to the 2nd century BC such as a funeral decoration representing the head of Medusa now in the archaeological museum of Barcelona.

According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses ), a Roman poet writing in 8 AD, who was noted for accuracy regarding the Greek myths, Medusa alone had serpents in her hair, and he explained that this was due to Athena ( Roman Minerva ) cursing her.

Medusa had copulated with Poseidon ( Roman Neptune ) in a temple of Athena after he was aroused by the golden color of Medusa's hair.

Perseus and the head of Medusa in a Roman fresco at Stabiae

In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid ( Metamorphoses 4. 770 ), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, " the jealous aspiration of many suitors ," priestess in Athena's temple, but when she was caught being raped by the " Lord of the Sea " Poseidon in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone.

Medusa mosaic ( Roman period ), National Archaeological Museum, Athens

In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion.

The survivors of the sinking of the French ship Méduse in 1816 resorted to cannibalism after four days adrift on a raft and their plight was made famous by Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa.

The Minotaur is also the first infernal guardian whom Virgil and Dante come across within the walls of Dis ( the fallen angels, Erinyes, and the unseen Medusa were located on the city's defensive ramparts in Canto IX ).

Poseidon also had sexual intercourse with Medusa on the floor of a temple to Athena.

* " Medusa ," a song by Anthrax on the album Spreading the Disease

* " Medusa ," a song by Sweet on the album Desolation Boulevard

These Cyclopes also created Poseidon's trident, Artemis's bow and arrows of moonlight, Apollo's bow and arrows of sun rays, and Hades's helmet of darkness that was given to Perseus on his quest to kill Medusa.

The RiscPC ( codenamed Medusa ) was Acorn Computers's next generation RISC OS / Acorn RISC Machine computer, launched on 15 April 1994, which superseded the Acorn Archimedes.

The January 1993 and June 1994 issues of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society ( JBIS ) have articles on Medusa.

In addition, Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man, heralded for its deconstruction of the concept of the comic book, initiated a " Second Crisis " in which characters such as the original Crime Syndicate of America from Earth-Three came back to life thanks to the Medusa Mask owned by the Psycho-Pirate, who remembered the original Crisis.

In art Chrysaor's earliest appearance seems to be on the great pediment of the early 6th century BC Doric Temple of Artemis at Corfu, where he is shown beside his mother, Medusa.

In Greek mythology, Geryon (; genitive: Γηρυόνος ) son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe and grandson of Medusa, was a fearsome giant who dwelt on the island Erytheia of the mythic Hesperides in the far west of the Mediterranean.

The statue of Athena is upright, with a tunic reaching to the feet, and on her breast the head of Medusa is worked in ivory.

Apotropaic art was the practice of the neighboring Greeks at this time, as represented by the exaggerated eyes painted on drinking vessels in the 6th century BC to ward away spirits while drinking or the monstrous depiction of Medusa whose image was said to turn men to stone.

On a bronze mirror found at Praeneste, she attends Perseus, who consults two Graeae, or, on another, holds high the head of Medusa, while she and seated Perseus and Hermes all gaze safely at its reflection in a pool at their feet.

This was followed up by 2006's The Fall of Medusa V, in which all eight major powers converged on the titular world with their own agendas and goals.

Myau is on a mission to save his friend Odin, who has been turned to stone by the creature Medusa.

Perseus with the Head of Medusa in the Loggia dei Lanzi gallery on the edge of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence ; picture taken after the statue's cleaning and restoration.

These include: Oleta Adams " Circle of One " album ( reaching No. 1 in the UK charts 1991 ); Marc Almond " Tenement Symphony " album which included the epic tracks " Jacky " and " The Days of Pearly Spencer "; The Associates " Wild and Lonely " album ; Rick Astley " Free " album ; B * Witched " Awake and Breathe " album ; Chris Botti " Slowing Down the World " album ; Boyzone " A Different Beat " album ; Cher " It's a Man's World " album ; Petula Clark " La Vie en Rose " track ; Lloyd Cole and the Commotions " Rattlesnakes " album ; Andrea Corr " Ten Feet High " album ; Cathy Dennis " Move to This " and " Into the Skyline " albums ; Electronic " Getting Away with It " single ( reaching No. 12 in the UK charts 1990 ); Frankie Goes to Hollywood " Welcome to the Pleasuredome " album which included their 2nd and 3rd No. 1s " Two Tribes " and " The Power of Love "; Elton John " The Big Picture " album ; Martyn Joseph " Being There " album ; Kingmaker " Sleepwalking " album ; Annie Lennox " Medusa " album ( No. 1 in the UK charts 1995 ); Let Loose " Best In Me " single ; Virginia MacNaughton " The Music " album ; Paul McCartney " Press to Play " album ; Malcolm McLaren " Duck Rock " album ; The Men They Couldn't Hang " A Map Of Morocco " single ; George Michael " Careless Whisper " single ( reaching No. 1 in 25 countries ); Liza Minnelli " Results " album ( reaching No. 6 in the UK charts 1989 ); The Moody Blues " Greatest Hits " album ; Moist " Gasoline " single ; Jimmy Nail " Crocodile Shoes " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1994 ); The Painted Word " Lovelife " album ; Pet Shop Boys " Very " album ; Pulp " Different Class " and " This Is Hardcore " albums ( both reaching No. 1 ); Rialto " Monday Morning 5: 19 " single ; Frances Ruffelle " Stranger To The Rain " single ; S Club " 7 album " ( No. 1 in the UK charts 2000 ); Scarlet " Naked " album ; Seal first 3 albums " Seal " " Seal II " " Human Being "; Siphiwo " Hope " album ( featuring Nelson Mandela on the title track ); Wendy Stark " Stark " album ; Rod Stewart " A Spanner in the Works " album and " If We Fall in Love Tonight " album and the single " Downtown Train "; Suggs " The Lone Ranger " album ; Travis " More Than Us " EP featuring Anne on the title track ; Tina Turner " Wildest Dreams " album ; Wet Wet Wet " Holding Back the River " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1989 ); Wham!

Their main mission was to retrieve material from the Medusa experiment, left on the station's exterior by the Soyuz 26 crew in December.

In this spoof, Brown plays Medusa, a controlling, hyper-sexual blonde bombshell who has allowed a documentary crew to follow her on her " Blonde Leading the Blonde Tour.

In 1986 they released their second and last album on 4AD, Medusa, before signing with PolyGram.

De Casembroot returned fire and ran the rebel gauntlet at full speed, fearful of endangering the life of the Dutch Consul General, who was on board Medusa at that time.

Medusa was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield.