Article: Medusa anthology proves mythical woman more than just a head of snakes.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Carlin Romano

"The Medusa Reader" by Marjorie Garber and Nancy J. Vickers; Routledge ($24.95)

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At first glance _ always dangerous where Medusa is concerned _ Nancy Vickers' scholarly crush on the Gorgon Gal with the eternal bad-hair day seems as odd as Susan Sontag's announcing that she's a Betty Boop fan.

In one corner, you have a millennia-old symbol of female monstrousness who either (a) seduced the sea god Poseidon or (b) was raped by him in the Temple of Athena.

True to the dubious damn-the-facts, full-speed-ahead ethics of Greek mythology, Athena punished Medusa by turning her luxuriant tresses into ...

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