Meanwhile, Medusa in Paradise Lost

Monsters from Myth, and Quests for a Scientific Rationale, Or, a Science Journalist’s Take on Mythological Animals. An Exploration of Matt Kaplan’s The Science of Monsters, with a Foray into Aetiologies and Cultural Uses of Medusa

“…For comparison to Virgil, consider an instance of use of Medusa in the netherworld in early modern literature. In Milton's Paradise Lost, 2.610-614, the damned are prevented by Medusa from reaching, in Hell, the river Lethe, of forgetting all pain (Fleming 2002).…”