Far-Stepper/Of Wide Sea as opposed to the traditional depiction of the Gorgons as grotesque and evil. The album artwork designed by Noble shows Medusa with a feminine build, blue-grey skin and dark grey hair.hough the plot generally follows that of the Gorgons in ancient Greek mythology, some aspects, such as the deep emotional connection between the sisters, were conceived by Noble. The prologue is told primarily in third person, but features sections from the perspective of Stheno, the oldest of the three Gorgons. Immortal sisters Stheno and Euryale have lived alone for a thousand years in the sea caves below Mount Olympus before
Greek mythology in western art and literature for all things Greek, including Greek mythology. In Britain, it was a great period for new translations of Greek tragedies and Homer's works, and these in turn inspired contemporary poets, such as Keats, Byron, and Shelley. The Hellenism of Queen Victoria's poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, was such that even his portraits of the quintessentially English court of King Arthur are suffused with echoes of the Homeric epics. The visual arts kept pace, stimulated by the purchase of the Parthenon marbles in 1816; many of the "Greek" paintings of Lord Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema were seriously accepted as part of