"Medousa" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1965, Jack Lindsay, “Initiations and Shamans”, in The Clashing Rocks: A Study of Early Greek Religion and Culture and the Origins of Drama, London: Chapman & Hall, page 254:",
          "text": "Figures like Medousa and Pegasos wear wings.",
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          "ref": "1993, Timothy Gantz, “Gaia and Pontos”, in Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, volume 1, Baltimore, Md.; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 21:",
          "text": "The same time period also offers our first look at Medousa and her family, that is, Medousa shown intact and, at her side, her children, Pegasos and Chrysaor, who will in fact emerge from her neck only after her head has been cut off. We find this composition on a shield-band from Olympia (B 1687: wings, but apparently no snakes) and again on the famous Medousa pediment from the Temple of Artemis on Kerkyra (no #), where the wings and snakes are both in evidence.",
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          "ref": "2006 October, Greg Cox, chapter 1, in Infinite Crisis, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 13:",
          "text": "Superman wasn’t sure what disturbed him more, her actions or her lack of remorse. He knew that Diana had slain monsters before, like Medousa or the Scylla, but Max Lord had not been some mythological Greek monstrosity; he had only been a man, albeit an evil one.",
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