Medusa Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound", which places both trinities of sisters far off "on Kisthene's dreadful plain": Near them their sisters three, the Gorgons, winged With snakes for hair— hatred of mortal man— While ancient Greek vase-painters and relief carvers imagined Medusa and her sisters as having monstrous form, sculptors and vase-painters of the fifth century began to envisage her as being beautiful as well as terrifying. In an ode written in 490 BC Pindar already speaks of "fair-cheeked Medusa". In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid ("Metamorphoses" 4.770), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful
USS Euryale (AS-22) Battery C, 1st Battalion, 11th Marines were transported from the Wallis Islands, to Apia, Samoa. "Hawaiian Merchant" was purchased by the Navy on 15 April 1943 at New York. The ship commissioned 2 December 1943 as USS "Euryale" (AS-22) with Captain H. A. Guthrie in command. "Euryale" reached Brisbane, Australia, from New York City 5 March 1944, and after loading provisions and supplies, sailed for Milne Bay, New Guinea. There between 14 March and 26 May, "Euryale" refitted submarines and repaired surface ships. At Manus from 28 May to 11 August, she established a forward base and rest camp for