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  • He was the leading artist of the Gorgoneion Group.
  • Archaic Greek depictions of the gorgoneion render it bearded, an anomaly in the female Gorgon.
  • Another conventional decoration is the gorgoneion, or Medusa's head, on the upper chest, and often vegetative motifs on the pectorals.
  • The uppermost, the tympanum is composed of a triangular gable with a gorgoneion in the centre and two dolphins facing outwards in the spandrels.
  • The Gorgoneion, or Gorgon head, known as Medusa, was used in the ancient world as a protective ca . 200 BC ) in Pompeii.
  • In Ancient Greece, the "'Gorgoneion "'( Hellenistic age, as shown, for instance, on the Alexander Mosaic and the Gonzaga Cameo.
  • Like earlier depictions of Athena she wears the archaic peplos, but she also has the Aegis over her shoulders, with a gorgoneion in the centre of her chest.
  • The medieval lead amulets that show the rider subduing the female often have a main image that resembles a gorgoneion and is likely a womb symbol ( " hystera " ).
  • One of the elements of iconography that identify the Greek Athena and the Roman Minerva, goddesses who embodied the strategic side of warfare, was a breastplate bearing a gorgoneion ( see Aegis ).
  • Martin Robertson, following Furtw鋘gler's attribution to Phidias, remarked that it would be unlikely for the beautiful face of the Medusa to be juxtaposed with the beautiful face of the goddess, whose gorgoneion retained its fearful archaic appearance.
  • Perseus then returned his magical loans and gave Medusa's head as a votive gift to Athena, who set it on Zeus'shield ( which she carried ), as the " Gorgoneion " ( see also : Aegis ).
  • Medusa was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her evil-averting device known as the " Gorgoneion ".
  • Jane Ellen Harrison argues that " her potency only begins when her head is severed, and that potency resides in the head; she is in a word a mask with a body later appended . . . the basis of the Gorgoneion is a cultus object, a ritual mask misunderstood ."
  • It was supposed by Euripides ( " Ion ", 995 ) that the aegis borne by Athena was the skin of the slain Gorgon, yet the usual understanding is that the " Gorgoneion " was " added " to the aegis, a votive offering from a grateful Perseus.
  • The centre was occupied by Athena and is partially preserved, depicting her trunk with the Gorgoneion on the thorax; a superb work of art is the complex of Theseus and Antiope marked by sensitivity and softness of the form, internal force and clarity, despite the ornamental tendency obvious in the coiffures and the folds of their clothes.
  • Janer Danforth Belson has made a case for its model to have been the gorgoneion on a gilt-bronze aegis that was an " ex-voto " of Antiochus IV and was hung on the south retaining wall of the Acropolis of Athens about 170 BC, where it was noted by Pausanias in the late second century AD.
  • Alternatively, it may have been modeled after a classicising Hellenistic work of the late fourth century BC . If it is of the fifth century, Janer Danforth Belson has pointed out, it is the first of the " beautiful gorgoneion " type to appear in Greek art by more than a century, and unparalleled in any contemporaneous representation of the Medusa head.