Much has been said about the Gorgon's head, but what happened to her body? Starting with this question, this essay by philosopher Ana Carrasco-Conde delves into ancient thought to discover how it addressed horror and outrage. If philosophy has tended to exclude the body from its reflections in order to give free rein to conceptualizations detached from materiality, how did the ancients think about the evil they experienced and endured? How did they confront the suffering body, the corpse, and the pain of the remains of the disappeared? How did they conceive of wounds, flesh, blood, and harm? And violence? And rape? Has philosophy, from its very beginnings, been connected to terror, horror, and what we consider monstrous, even if it may not be? Was the Gorgon a monster?

What if philosophers are not those who fall into a well or an abyss, lost in their own thoughts, but rather those who seek them out, locate them, and enter them in order to reflect upon them? With what protection would we venture into that darkness?

Ana Carrasco-Conde is a professor of Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. Specializing in German idealism and Romanticism, and trained in classical studies and German studies, her philosophical concerns focus on the "dark side" of reality (evil, unease, and terror) or its more "indigestible" aspects (pain, death, and despair). Her central focus of work centers on the "unspeakable" and the "unrepresentable." She is the author of *Decir el mal* (2021) and *La muerte en común* (2024), both published by Galaxia Gutenberg. She has coordinated, among others, the volumes *Hegel y Hölderlin. Una amistad estelar* with Valerio Rocco and Laura Anna Macor.Círculo de Bellas Artes, 2021) and Romantic Irony, together with Nuria Sánchez Madrid and Germán Garrido (Siglo XXI, 2022).