Perseus Beheads Medusa

Perseus beheads Medusa
Limestone metope from Selinus. Height 1.47 m. About 530 BCE. Museo Nazionale, Palermo.

  • Perseus beheads Medusa who already holds the winged horse Pegasus.
  • Athena, without attributes, stands beside him.

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