Statue of Perseus with head of Medusa, by Benvenuto Cellini, 1554. According to Greek mythology Perseus beheaded the Gorgon Medusa for Polydectes and saved Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c. 1900.

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