Evidence
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| Tradition | Source | Passage | Confidence | Evidence | Record |
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| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7298-7393 | high | Ancient writers explain the Gorgons as savage women in caves and forests or as three wealthy sisters with islands, a shared minister interpreted as one eye, and a golden statue of Minerva; Perseus seizes the minister, demands the statue, kills resisting Medusa, places the head on his ship, and his terror-producing reputation gives rise to the petrifaction fable. | record |