在古希腊诗人赫西俄德约公元前700年的《神谱》里，戈尔贡是三姐妹：斯忒诺、欧律阿勒和美杜莎，三人中只有美杜莎不是永生的。古希腊人相信美杜莎的头像能吓退邪恶，常把它刻在盾牌、铠甲和神庙上当作护身符。希腊科孚岛约公元前580年建成的阿尔忒弥斯神庙，山墙正中就是一尊巨大的美杜莎浮雕，今天还能在科孚考古博物馆看到。

In the Theogony of the Greek poet Hesiod, written around 700 BC, the Gorgons are three sisters, Stheno, Euryale and Medusa, and only Medusa is mortal. The ancient Greeks believed that the face of Medusa could frighten away evil, so they carved it on shields, armour and temples as a protective charm. At the Temple of Artemis on the Greek island of Corfu, built around 580 BC, a huge relief of Medusa fills the centre of the pediment, and it can still be seen today in the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.

而珀尔修斯能杀死她，靠的全是神明赠送的装备：赫尔墨斯的飞行凉鞋、哈迪斯的隐身头盔、雅典娜的镜面盾牌——严格来说，这场胜利更像是"神明代打"，而非纯粹的个人英勇。

Perseus, meanwhile, only managed to kill her thanks to gifts from the gods: Hermes's winged sandals, Hades's helmet of invisibility, and Athena's mirrored shield — making his victory less a feat of personal heroism than a case of the gods doing the work for him.

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