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Comic #2659

1 {scene: the Berlin to Palermo train}
1 Monty: There are Ancient Greek texts in the library of the Classical Museum in Tripoli.
2 Monty: That's easily the most obvious place to look for any evidence of the Gorgons and their mythical powers of petrification.
3 {scene change: a zeppelin flying over the Mediterranean}
3 Haken: So how do we find these Gorgons?
4 Ginny: The Classical Museum in Tripoli has collected a suspiciously large number of extremely lifelike statues over the years...

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A large number of extremely lifelike statues in an area populated by Greek mythology should trigger all sorts of alarm bells.

Where did the Greeks get all that marble from?


2024-11-30 Rerun commentary: They got a lot of their marble from the Aegean islands of Naxos and Paros, and also from Mount Pentelicus on mainland Greece.

The abundance of amazingly lifelike marble status in these regions speaks of a high chance of finding Gorgons in these places too.

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