Medusa

medusa médusa Médusa Medúsa Translingual Etymology From mul la Medūsa, from mul grc Μέδουσα.n 2740427483 Proper noun 1 f mul archaic genus phylum Cnidaria diverse jellyfishes, now assigned to numerous other genera Hypernyms genus References 596365 English <dab!> right|thumb|Medusa (Rubens) Medusa (Rubens), circa 1618 Alternative forms en Medousa Etymology en ine-pro *med- From en enm Medusa, enm Meduse, from en la Medūsa, from en grc Μέδουσα, from grc μέδω rule over.n 2740427483 Pronunciation en /mɪˈdjuːsə/ /mɪˈdjuːzə/ mĭ'dū'sə mĭ'dū'zə US en /məˈduːsə/ en En-us-Medusa.oga US en uːsə 3 en Me dus a Proper noun en Greek mythology The youngest and only mortal of the three gorgon sisters, killed by Perseus. en Euryale Stheno 1895, Adolf Furtwängler, Eugenie Sellers Strong Eugenie Strong (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art, 2010, 9781108017121, page 201, On an Attic vase of the middle of the fifth century the head of Medusa in the hand of Perseus is represented as that of a beautiful woman free from any distortion. This led us to conclude (supra, p. 158) that Medusa must have been so represented at Athens in the greater arts even previous to this vase, for the vase-painters never invent such bold novelties for themselves. en 2000 Nannó Marinatos The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion http://books.google.com/books?id=jwP8yhpyUkkC&pg=PA62&dq=medusa+perseus&hl=en&ei=EHsDTuX8OcrqmAXExuT2DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBTgU#v=onepage&q=medusa%20perseus&f=false 62 It will be suggested here that the myth of Perseus, involving the decapitation of Medusa, is a narrative version of ritual. en 2001 Dennis Berthold Melville's Medusas Sanford E. Marovitz; Athanasios C. Christodoulou Melville "Among the nations": Proceedings of an International Conference, Volos, Greece, July 2-6, 1997 But their depictions of Perseus are remarkably different and demonstrate the ambiguity of Medusa that was seeping into Victorian iconography. In later, Roman versions of the myth, for example Ovid's Metamorphoses, Perseus slays the sea monster with his sword instead of using Medusa’s head to petrify the monster. Derived terms en medusa Medusa piercing medusafish medusahead medusal Medusalike Translations one of the Gorgons Arabic: ar مَدُوزَة f Catalan: ca Medusa Cherokee: chr ᎺᏚᏌ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 美杜莎 Měidùshā, cmn 墨杜萨 Mòdùsà Danish: da Medusa Dutch: nl Medusa f Esperanto: eo Meduzo Finnish: fi Meduusa French: fr Méduse f German: de Medusa f Greek: el Μέδουσα f Ancient Greek: grc Μέδουσα f Hindi: hi मेदूसा Hungarian: hu Medusza Inuktitut: iu ᒥᑑᓴ Italian: it Medusa f Japanese: ja メドゥーサ Latin: la Medūsa f Lithuanian: lt Medūza f Marathi: mr मेड्यूसा Polish: pl Meduza f Portuguese: pt Medusa f Russian: ru Меду́за f Spanish: es Medusa f Swahili: sw Medusa Swedish: sv Medusa c Turkish: tr Medusa See also en Euryale en Stheno References Further reading Medusa (mythology) Anagrams en ademsu amused sea mud Italian it: Etymology From it grc Μέδουσα, from grc μέδω rule over. Pronunciation Medùsa Proper noun f it Greek mythology en Medusa Anagrams it ademsu desuma Japanese Romanization メドゥサ Latin Etymology From la grc Μέδουσα, from grc μέδω rule over. Pronunciation Medūsa Proper noun Medūsa<1> la Greek god Medusa a gorgon Declension Medūsa<1> Portuguese Etymology pt grc Μέδουσα, from grc μέδω rule over. Proper noun f pt Greek mythology en Medusa creature with a petrifying gaze Spanish Etymology es grc Μέδουσα, from grc μέδω rule over. Pronunciation Proper noun f es Greek mythology en Medusa es Mythological creatures Mythology Turkish tr: Proper noun tr Greek god Medusa