Medusa appeared in an episode of Animaniacs; she wasn't exactly beautiful, but she appeared to be a satire of Joan Rivers and more-or-less harmless. ( Maybe... There was a statue nearby the place where she was talking to someone, likely the remains of a victim.)

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Ovid. Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1–8. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Revised by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library No. 42. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977, first published 1916. ISBN 978-0-674-99046-3. Online version at Harvard University Press. Hesiod, Theogony 281; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke Book II, part iv, nos. 1–3. "The Library: Books 1–3.9." Translated by J.G. Frazer, (Loeb Classical Library), Harvard University Press, 1921 (reprint), pp. 155–161. The Shambleau in the classic Northwest Smith story of the same name by C. L. Moore. She is terrifying, hugely desirable and addictive to the protagonist. The Shambleau is pretty much the intersection of Gorgeous Gorgon and Humanoid Abomination, though her natural state while feeding is a tentacled monster.

Note that while much "classical" art portrays Medusa (after her change) as horrifically butt-ugly, the whole Cute Monster Girl and Not Evil, Just Misunderstood thingie is a fairly old interpretation, although more prominent in modern takes. Mariliths are this, Depending on the Artist. Sometimes, their upper bodies are beautiful women, sometimes, they're fairly ugly snake people all the way through. Since demons are made of concentrated evil and chaos, it's implied that both forms are perfectly normal. Mariliths, being demons, can shape change pretty much at will, so they look pretty much how they want to. Except those enslaved to a more powerful demon, who look pretty much how their master wants them to look. Graves, Robert (1955). The Greek Myths. Penguin Books. pp. 17, 244. ISBN 0241952743. A large part of Greek myth is politico-religious history. Bellerophon masters winged Pegasus and kills the Chimaera. Perseus, in a variant of the same legend, flies through the air and beheads Pegasus's mother, the Gorgon Medusa; much as Marduk, a Babylonian hero, kills the she-monster Tiamat, Goddess of the Seal. Perseus's name should properly be spelled Perseus, 'the destroyer'; and he was not, as Professor Kerenyi has suggested, an archetypal Death-figure but, probably, represented the patriarchal Hellenes who invaded Greece and Asia Minor early in the second millennium BC, and challenged the power of the Triple-goddess. Pegasus had been sacred to her because the horse with its moon-shaped hooves figured in the rain-making ceremonies and the installment of sacred kings; his wings were symbolical of a celestial nature, rather than speed. Pythian Ode 12). Noted by Marjorie J. Milne in discussing a red-figured vase in the style of Polygnotos, ca. 450–30 BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Milne noted that "It is one of the earliest illustrations of the story to show the Gorgon not as a hideous monster but as a beautiful woman. Art in this respect lagged behind poetry." (Marjorie J. Milne, "Perseus and Medusa on an Attic Vase" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin New Series, 4.5 (January 1946, pp. 126–130) 126.p.) The “ MEDUSA” project, developed by AFR-IX telecom and manufactured by Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), will be the Mediterranean's most extensive submarine cable initiative to date. Stretching over 7,100 km, this state-of-the-art, high-capacity optical-fibre submarine cable will connect both shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The project is expected to be operational between 2025 and early 2026, with a design life of 25 years.

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Theoi Project, Medousa & the Gorgones References to Medusa and her sisters in classical literature and art The head of Medusa is featured on some regional symbols. One example is that of the flag and emblem of Sicily, together with the three-legged trinacria. The inclusion of Medusa in the center implies the protection of the goddess Athena, who wore the Gorgon's likeness on her aegis, as said above. Another example is the coat of arms of Dohalice village in the Czech Republic.Related to Cute Monster Girl and Hollywood Homely. Compare Beauty to Beast, Bishōnen Line, Freakiness Shame, and You Sexy Beast. See also Snakes Are Sexy. For the trope about Gorgons, see Medusa. Probably the feminine present participle of medein, "to protect, rule over" ( American Heritage Dictionary; compare Medon, Medea, Diomedes, etc.). If not, it is from the same root, and is formed after the participle. OED 2001 revision, s.v.; medein in LSJ.

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Aurielle Goldenscale from Monsterful; she's a sexy, blond (her snakes have yellow scales) gorgon teacher, and even though she's really gorgeous, she's also a big, mean teacher. She will petrify any student that doesn't follow her rules either partially or entirely and is feared by most of the students of Addams High for this. Jane Harrison has pointed out (Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion) that Medusa was once the goddess herself, hiding behind a prophylactic Gorgon mask: a hideous face intended to warn the profane against trespassing on her Mysteries. Perseus beheads Medusa: that is, the Hellenes overran the goddess's chief shrines, stripped her priestesses of their Gorgon masks, and took possession of the sacred horses—an early representation of the goddess with a Gorgon's head and a mare's body has been found in Boeotia. Bellerophon, Perseus's double, kills the Lycian Chimaera: that is, the Hellenes annulled the ancient Medusan calendar, and replaced it with another.Hard, Robin (2004). The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology". Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-18636-0. The protagonist of Little Medusa is a very cute and adorable gorgon, embarking on a quest to stop the evil and spiteful goddess who cursed her. Main article: Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons An embossed plaque in the Art Nouveau style from 1911 Perseus with the Head of Medusa (1554), Benvenuto Cellini Medusa (c. 1597), by Caravaggio

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Cala Maria from Cuphead starts her fight as a pretty mermaid whose head is made of octopus tentacles . In her second phase she takes a more gorgon-like form with green skin, yellow eyes and snakes as her hair, and she gains the petrifying gaze of a gorgon too. She, however, keeps most of her basic pretty qualities.EU and EIB’s support helps accelerate the MEDUSA high-speed digital connection under the Mediterranean Sea Search En