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Which text does the story of Perseus and Medusa come from?
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Which text does the story of Perseus and Medusa come from?
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>>7409230
oral tradition you meme loving fuck.
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>>7409230

>>7409279

This, but you can find it in Ovid's Metamorphoses and probably in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Probably in Apollodorus' Bibliotheca Mithologica.

Remember that when it comes to Greek myths there is never one single source.
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>you will never be cellini presenting a bronze statue of medusa and perseus in the piazza della signoria while duke cosimo watches
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>>7409279
Nevertheless, someone had to write it down first. It didn't go from oral tradition to Clash of the Titans.
Also, fuck you.
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>>7409287
Thank you very much
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>>7409295
But that's not what you asked for keklord.
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>>7409287
Ovid is way too late
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>>7410241

Yes, I know, but it remains a valid source for OP's research on the topic of this particular myth.
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>>7409230
>tfw Greek
>tfw these mythos were your bed time stories
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>>7409287

Don't forget Hesiod and Pindar (Pythian 12), both of whom are earlier than Ovid and Apollodorus
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