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(Greek mythology) The head of the gorgon Medusa. quotations
On returning home, he[Perseus] turns Polydectes and his people to stone, and then gives the Gorgoneion to his protectress Athena, who fixes it upon her shield.
2000, Extract from , K. O. Müller, Introduction to A Scientific Study of Mythology, Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson (editors), The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860, Indiana University Press, page 419
(Greek mythology) A pendant, worn by the goddess Athena, which features an image of Medusa's head.
(astronomy) The smaller and closer-orbiting of the two moons of the main-belt asteroid 93 Minerva. examples