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gorgoneion

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Definitions

  1. A (representation of a) gorgon's head, especially that of Medusa.

Word origin

From Ancient Greek γοργόνειον (gorgóneion), neuter of γοργόνειος (gorgóneios, “pertaining to a Gorgon”).

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  • The gorgoneion or "bodiless head of fright" antedates by many centuries the Gorgon with a woman's body.
  • Pausanias twice mentions a gilt-bronze aigis with the head of Medousa, or gorgoneion, at its center, placed high on the south wall of the Acropolis above the Theater of Dionysos [Figs. 4, 9].
  • Even where, as on a kratēr of the Tarporley Painter, the reflection is centred and placed where we expect the gorgoneion, it appears upside-down and is thereby markedly different from the gorgoneion.

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