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Medusa loved to feel the serpents which served for hair curled close to her neck and dangling down her back, but with their heads raised to form an impressive bang over her forehead—in what has since become the fashionable female style in Rome. And when she used a comb, their poison would flow freely.
From Lucan’s Pharsalia, inThe Medusa Reader, edited by Marjorie Garber and Nancy J. Vickers, 40.

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