"BEAUTY, LIKE MONSTROSITY, ENTHRALLS, AND FEMALE BEAUTY IN PARTICULAR WAS PERCEIVED—AND, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, IS STILL PERCEIVED—TO BE BOTH ENCHANTING AND DANGEROUS, OR EVEN FATAL. "

- – Kiki Karoglou, Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.75, no. 3