bronze wall-mounted mask of the Gorgon Medusa

Hephaistos would be amazed by the craftsmanship and quality of this wonderful collection!

These superb bronze pieces are cast in Greece using the traditional lost wax method. As nothing is mass-produced, there will inevitably be slight variations in texture, patina, and colour. No two pieces are ever the same. If mounted, the base is of black marble.

Please note that there may be a variation of some millimetres in the dimensions of the base from time to time, and that accessories such as spears, tridents or javelins may vary in length or height! If you need precise dimensions and weight, email me!

If you need a piece to fit a very specific space, or if you want me to take a photo of a couple of pieces so you can pick the one you want, I will do so with pleasure.

Every piece is deliciously tactile.

It's All Greek is so grateful and so proud to have been working closely with the Semitekolo family foundry since 1999. It has been a privilege and a joy to handle, live with, to photograph and describe these gorgeous pieces, before passing them on to passionate and grateful customers all over the world.

If you already own one of these pieces, cherish it!

One of the most iconic characters in ancient Greek mythology, Medusa, whose name means guardian or protectress, was a winged female monster. A Gorgon. Instead of hair, she had hissing venomous snakes. Anyone who looked at her face would be petrified - literally turned into stone.

But Medusa had another life before being a Gorgon. She had been a beautiful young girl, who, after being seduced by Poseidon in Athena's temple, was transformed by Athena into a hideous monster.

She was eventually beheaded by the hero Perseus, who managed to avoid being turned into stone, thanks to various gifts from the gods: Athena gave him a polished shield so that he could avoid looking straight at Medusa; Hermes gave him winged sandals; Hephaistos gave him a sword, and Hades a helmet of invisibility.

When she died, Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon, and from her severed head emerged Pegasus the winged horse.

Medusa's image, in the form of her severed snake-haired head, became known as a Gorgoneion. It formed a central element in the aegis shared by Zeus and Athena, and developed as an apotropaic symbol, designed to ward off evil.

Her severed head was also a popular choice to decorate the hoplon, the hoplite shield, lynchpin of the Classical Greek land-based infantry phalanx.