Ch. 4: Pan and Pegasus 

 Medusa 

This is what some considered to be the figure of winged Medusa. It was possible for Hermes to promise that the sword he was giving Perseus was hard enough to cut through Medusa's scales, no matter how hard they might be,²⁸ because the sword was made from the same material as Medusa's scales

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