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I really like the article by Charles Segal, "The Gorgon and the Nightingale:  The Voice of Female Lament and Pindar's Twelfth *Pythian Ode*," in the book *Embodied Voices:  Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture*.  His point (well, he has lots of points) is basically that the gorgon/Medusa figure represents the female scream with which we enter the world (childbirth pains) and exit (the female lament).  There's more, but that's the gist.

Kirk Summers
University of Alabama

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