Daisy Dunn

The curse of Medusa: Stone Blind, by Natalie Haynes, reviewed

There’s real tenderness in Haynes’s portrait of Medusa, the mortal born into a family of divinities and monstrously punished for being raped by Poseidon

Relief of Medusa’s head, from Aphrodisias, Turkey (Roman, 2nd century). [Getty Images]

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