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 ont
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.