Italo Calvino's essay on "Lightness" illustrates the title concept by using Ovid's account of how a hero placed this object on a bed of leaves and underwater plants to protect it from rough sands.
Italo Calvino's essay on "Lightness" illustrates the title concept by using Ovid's account of how a hero placed this object on a bed of leaves and underwater plants to protect it from rough sands. This object contained a liquid that created the amphisbaena (am-fis-"BYE"-nah), an ant-eating creature that had heads on each end of its body. A man was sent to retrieve this object a⢄er failing to supply a horse for Hippodamia's ("hippo"-DAH-mee-ah) wedding. This object, which was carried in a wallet called a kibisis, was used to stop Phineus from disrupting an Ethiopian princess's wedding feast. This object was mounted onto Athena's aegis (EE-jis) shield a⢄er it was obtained using Hermes's winged sandals and a re⢄ective shield. For 10 points, what object, severed by Perseus from the body of a Gorgon, had the power to turn people into stone?
Italo Calvino's essay on "Lightness" illustrates the title concept by using Ovid's account of how a hero placed this object on a bed of leaves and underwater plants to protect it from rough sands.
head of Medusa [accept answers mentioning Medusa and the idea of head or face or hair; prompt on "body of Medusa" or similar answers]