- 660 BCE: inhuman, grotesque, monstrous
- 5th century BCE: human, serene, beautiful woman, emotionless, more defined snake-like hair (Medusa Rondanini)
- Caravaggio Medusa 1597
- realistic depiction of snakes
- decapitation
- fear/shock
- more characterization through expressiveness
- empathize
- Helene Cixous
- rehabilitation of image
- beauty vs. deadly, laughing
- feminist philosopher
- Versace
- seduction, history, classicism, dangerous attraction
- Medusa Rondanini