WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Medusa is best known for having hair made of snakes and for her ability to turn anyone she looked at to stone, literally to petrify.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Greek mythology, the Gorgons were three monstrous sisters with snakes for hair who could turn someone to stone just by looking at them. The most famous of these sisters was Medusa, but she was also the only mortal Gorgon.

Detailed explanation-3: -The name Gorgon comes from the ancient Greek word , meaning “grim, ‘’ “fierce, ‘’ and “terrible, ‘’ and Medusa’s name derives from the ancient Greek verb meaning “to guard” or “to protect, ‘’ which is very fitting given the apotropaic quality of the face of the Gorgon, known as the Gorgoneion.