The Medusa Reader Book

	List of Illustrations	xv
	Acknowledgments	xvii
	Introduction	1
1	from The Hiad (c. 750-725 B.C.E.) translated by Richmond Lattimore Medusa as Shield and Sign	9
2	from The Shield of Herakles and Theogony (c. 700 B.C.E.) translated by Richmond Lattimore Medusa and Perseus	11
3	"Pythian 12" (c. 490 B.C.E.) translated by Geoffrey S. Conway Medusa and Music	14
4	from Ion (c. 413 B.C.E.) translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts The Power of Gorgon's Blood	16
5	"The Daughters of Phorcys" (fourth century B.C.E.) from On Unbelievable Tales translated by Jacob Stern A Rationalist View	20
6	from The Library (second century B.C.E.) translated by James George Frazer The Beauty of Medusa	23
7	from The Historical Library (c. 60 30 B.C.E.) translated by G. Booth The Gorgons and the Amazons in Africa	26
8	from Metamorphoses (c. 43 B.C.E. 17 C.E.) translated by Rolfe Humphries The Story of Perseus	30
9	from Pharsalia (c. 61-65) translated by Robert Graves Medusa and the Snakes of Libya	40
10	from The Hall (c. 120-180) translated by A. M. Harmon The Sirens and the Gorgons	43
11	from Description of Greece (c. 143-176) translated by W. H. S. Jones Another Rationalist View	44
12	from The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon (second century) translated by John Winkler Medusa and the Power of Ekphrasis	45
13	from Mythologies (late fifth--early sixth centuries) translated by Leslie G. Whitbread Terror and Manliness	47
14	from The Chronicle (sixth century) translated by Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, and Roger Scott The Sorcery of Perseus	49
15	from Inferno (c. 1310-1314) translated by Allen Mandelbaum Virgil, Dante, and Medusa	51
16	Rime Sparse, #197 (c. 1327-1374) translated by Robert M. Durling	53
17	from On the Labors of Hercules (c. 1381-1391) translated by Lesley Lundeen Medusa as Artful Eloquence	54
18	from The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards Medusa's Beauty	57
19	from The Philosophy of Love (1535) translated by F. Friedeberg-Seeley and Jean H. Barnes Allegorical Meanings	58
20	from the "Life of Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor" (1550) translated by George Bull Leonardo Paints the Head of Medusa	60
21	from Mythologies (1551) translated by Anthony DiMatteo Beauty and Pleasure	62
22	from Images of the Gods (1556) translated by Walter Hryshko Imaging Medusa	64
23	from his preface to the Orlando Furioso (1591) Allegories of Man and Earth	67
24	"Perseus, or War," from The Wisdom of the Ancients (1609) translated by James Spedding Tyranny and the Art of War	69
25	"The Statue of Medusa" (1616)	72
26	from Faust (1808) translated by Stuart Atkins Gretchen and Medusa	73
27	"On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery" (1819)	75
28	from Capital (1867) translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling The Medusa of Capitalist Production	77
29	"Aspecta Medusa" (1870)	79
30	from The Birth of Tragedy (1872) translated by Walter Kaufmann Medusa, Apollo, and Dionysus	80
31	"The Head and the Snakes" (1899) A Story for Children	81
32	"Medusa" (1921)	83
33	"Medusa's Head" and from "The Infantile Genital Organization" (1922 and 1923) translated by James Strachey The Classic Psychoanalytic Reading	84
34	from "On the Symbolism of the Head of Medusa" (1923) translated by Olive Edmonds Medusa and Castration	87
35	"Medusa" (1935)	88
36	from "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century" (1939) translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin Medusa and Modernity	89
37	from Generation of Vipers (1942) Momism	90
38	from Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology (1943) translated by Hazel E. Barnes The Other's Look	92
39	"Medusa" (1946)	94
40	from The Origins and History of Consciousness (1949) translated by R. F. C. Hull A Jungian View of the Terrible Mother	96
41	"Perseus" and "Medusa" (1958 and 1962)	100
42	from The Mask of Medusa (1960) translated by George Ordish The Gorgon Mask	104
43	"Tableau Vivant" (1968)	106
44	"The Muse as Medusa" (1971)	107
45	from "Medusa: The Letter and the Spirit" (1972) On Dante's Medusa	109
46	"Medusa Head Picture" from Pleasures of Crewel (1972) Embroidering Your Own Medusa	122
47	from "The Look of the Gorgon" (1974) Sartre and the Existentialist Medusa	124
48	from Glas (1974) translated by John P. Leavey, Jr., and Richard Rand The Gorgon and the Jew	128
49	from Roland Barthes (1975) translated by Richard Howard The Jellyfish "Medusa" and the Power to Stun	131
50	from "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975) translated by Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen A Classic of Feminist Theory	133
51	"A Navy Blue Afro" (1976)	135
52	from To Destroy Painting (1977) translated by Mette Hjort Caravaggio's "Head of Medusa": A Theoretical Perspective	137
53	"Medusa" (1977)	161
54	from "Difference" (1978) On "The Look for the Woman"	163
55	from The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings (1980) translated by Catherine Porter A Feminist Rereading of Freud's Medusa	165
56	from Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience (1981) An Anthropological View	168
57	from "Medusa's Head: Male Hysteria under Political Pressure" (1983) Medusa in the French Revolution	173
58	from The Mirror of Medusa (1983) Medusa as Double	196
59	from "Desire in Narrative" (1984) Medusa in Cinema	198
60	from "The Voice of the Shuttle Is Ours" (1984) Rape and Silence in the Medusa Story	201
61	from "The Medusa Effect or, The Specular Ruse" (1984) Barbara Kruger and the Medusa Effect	203
62	from "Death in the Eyes" and "In the Mirror of Medusa" (1985) translated by Thomas Curley and Froma I. Zeitlin Frontality and Monstrosity	210
63	from "The blazon of sweet beauty's best': Shakespeare's Lucrece" (1985) The Face of Medusa	232
64	from "Ancient Gorgons: A Face For Contemporary Women's Rage" (1986) Experiencing My Gorgon Self	238
65	"Medusa" (1987)	247
66	from "Macbeth: The Male Medusa" (1987) Shakespeare's "New Gorgon"	249
67	"Medusa" (1989)	258
68	"Grown Older ..." (1989) translated by Francis Michael Sharp Medusa by Free Association	259
69	from The Jew's Body (1991) The Syphilitic Woman	261
70	"The Gorgon, Paradigm of Image Creation" (1993) translated by Seth Graebner Medusa as Maker of Images	262
71	from "Berggasse 19: Inside Freud's Office" (1996) Medusa in the Mirror	267
72	from "Who's looking at Who(m): Re-viewing Medusa" (1996) Medusa in Theater and Performance Art	272
73	from "The Versace Moment" by Mark Seal (1996) Seduction	276
	Bibliography	279
	Sources and Permissions	303