Part I: The Mystery
1.: The Nature of the Myth
2.: The Myth of Perseus and Medusa
3.: The Gorgon in Art
4.: Parallels from Around the World
5.: Explanations
Part II: The Solution
6.: Mira and Algol
7.: The Surrounding Sky
8.: The Face on the Shield
9.: Gorgons and Gargoyles
10.: What the Gorgon Really Was
11.: The Gorgon Today
12.: Synthesis
Appendix
Notes
Reference
Index
"The author's twenty years of devoted and penetrating research has
netted so engagingly seined a catch of fact and fancy that he is
close to persuasive about [the origins of Medusa's] gaze....Wilk is
open, judicious, and critically candid about the broad collage he
has so inventively explored. Good
to the last line of text, this rich book never even flirts with the
sin of being boring."--Journal of the History of Astronomy
"As the author of this interesting new book demonstrates, the
Gorgon was not only an unsually popular subject among Greek and
Roman writers and artists, but she has also remained a favorite
mythological character in modern times.... Wilk's in-depth study is
a welcome addition to the scholarship
about her, containing both extensive review of previous
interpretative theories and adding quite a few insightful new ideas
of his own."--The Classical Outlook
"The author's twenty years of devoted and penetrating research has
netted so engagingly seined a catch of fact and fancy that he is
close to persuasive about [the origins of Medusa's] gaze....Wilk is
open, judicious, and critically candid about the broad collage he
has so inventively explored. Good
to the last line of text, this rich book never even flirts with the
sin of being boring."--Journal of the History of Astronomy
"As the author of this interesting new book demonstrates, the
Gorgon was not only an unsually popular subject among Greek and
Roman writers and artists, but she has also remained a favorite
mythological character in modern times.... Wilk's in-depth study is
a welcome addition to the scholarship
about her, containing both extensive review of previous
interpretative theories and adding quite a few insightful new ideas
of his own."--The Classical Outlook
"The author's twenty years of devoted and penetrating research has
netted so engagingly seined a catch of fact and fancy that he is
close to persuasive about [the origins of Medusa's] gaze....Wilk is
open, judicious, and critically candid about the broad collage he
has so inventively explored. Good
to the last line of text, this rich book never even flirts with the
sin of being boring."--Journal of the History of Astronomy
"As the author of this interesting new book demonstrates, the
Gorgon was not only an unsually popular subject among Greek and
Roman writers and artists, but she has also remained a favorite
mythological character in modern times.... Wilk's in-depth study is
a welcome addition to the scholarship
about her, containing both extensive review of previous
interpretative theories and adding quite a few insightful new ideas
of his own."--The Classical Outlook
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