So it is that Perseus finds himself agreeing to find and defeat the Gorgon - a monster called Medusa - a task that Polydectes believes to be impossible, since the Oracle has also prophesied that ...

Think of “memento mori” artworks that remind us of our mortality, or powerful paintings like Caravaggio’s “Medusa” and Frida Kahlo’s unflinching self-portraits depicting chronic pain.