All 31 Uses of
Medusa
in
The Lightning Thief
- How did Medusa die in the myth?†
Chpt 11Medusa = Greek mythology: a woman with snakes for hair and the ability to turn people to stone
- Something told me that in the myth Medusa had been asleep when she was attacked by my namesake, Perseus.†
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- The Gray-Eyed One did this to me, Percy," Medusa said, and she didn't sound anything like a monster.†
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- Medusa snarled.†
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- Medusa asked.†
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- Knowing Grover, I was sure he'd miss Medusa and nail me.†
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- Then Medusa roared with rage.†
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- Medusa yelled, her snake-hair hissing and spitting.
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- Medusa is a menace.†
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- I followed the hissing and spitting sounds of Medusa's hair.†
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- I kept my eyes locked on the gazing ball so I would only glimpse Medusa's reflection, not the real thing.†
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- Medusa grabbed the stick and pulled him off course.†
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- Medusa was about to lunge at him when I yelled, "Hey!"†
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- Medusa cackled.†
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- She was holding Medusa's black veil.†
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- We found some old plastic grocery bags behind the snack counter and double-wrapped Medusa's head.†
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- Medusa was Poseidon's girlfriend.†
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- Medusa and her two sisters who had helped her get into the temple, they became the three gorgons.†
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- That's why Medusa wanted to slice me up, but she wanted to preserve you as a nice statue.†
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- Oh, so now it's my fault we met Medusa.†
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- What had Medusa said?†
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- What are you—" I searched the back of the warehouse until I found Medusa's office.†
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- I went back to the picnic table, packed up Medusa's head, and filled out a delivery slip: The Gods Mount Olympus 600th Floor, Empire State Building New York, NY With best wishes, PERCY JACKSON "They're not going to like that," Grover warned.†
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- The Furies and Medusa had provided enough excitement for one day.†
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- But back at Medusa's, when you were searching her office?†
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- But as I was saying, back at Medusa's, Annabeth and I agreed there's something strange going on with this quest.†
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- I thought about what Medusa had said: I was being used by the gods.†
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- That's why you mailed Medusa's head to Olympus.†
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- I fished out my last bit of change and passed Grover a quarter, which left me two nickels and one drachma from Medusa's place.†
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- Standing here and there like frozen party guests were Medusa's garden statues— petrified children, satyrs, and centaurs-all smiling grotesquely.†
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- I remembered Grover dive-bombing Medusa in the statue garden, and Annabeth saving us from Cerberus; we'd survived Hephaestus's Waterland ride, the St. Louis Arch, the Lotus Casino.†
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Definition:
Greek mythology: a woman with snakes for hair and the ability to turn people to stone if they looked at her