The myth and Medusa is discussed in the poem “perseus” and the story “Heroes Every Child Should Know” Perseus was a brave boy who killed a monster with snake hair and eyes of stone named Medusa. Medusa was a monster with snake hair,and eyes of stone,she would turn people to stone if you looked her in the eyes. The two stories are similar because they both have the same conflict and the same setting, but different because they have different amounts of characters. The two stories are similar because they both have the same conflict, how Perseus is going to kill Medusa. In the story it talks about “He thought awhile with himself,and remembered Athene’s words”.
She was the daughter of Zeus. She was the favorite child of Zeus. She had great power because of this. She represented the thinking part of war. This source is credible because it is an encyclopedia.
A beautiful young woman by the name of Medusa caught the attention of the god Poseidon. Poseidon took a liking to Medusa and eventually wooed her; soon after Medusa agreed to marry Poseidon which didn’t make the goddess Athena too happy. Athena turned the beautiful Medusa into an ugly gorgon. Medusa’s long hair was turned into venomous snakes, she was given an ugly face, and the power to turn anyone into stone who looked into her eyes. She fled from her home and ended up in Africa.
Athena was usually the most sensible and wise of all the gods, but when it comes to her anger she’s totally nuts. She’s the reason why Medusa had snake hair, when Poseidon raped the beautiful priestess Medusa in one of Athena’s temples. When Athena found out she didn’t take it out on Poseidon but turned Medusa into a monster with snakes for hair and helped Perseus kill her. Athena was one of the goddesses who assisted to start the Trojan war, because she was infuriated when Paris awarded Aphrodite first prize in an goddess beauty contest. Not only that, when she heard about a woman named Arachne, who she took the courage to say that she was better at weaving than the goddess herself, she challenged the mortal and lost.
In the days of Gods, and Heroes there lived a golden-haired maiden by the name of Medusa, and she was the priestess of Athena. She had taken a vow of celibacy, which, according to Webster’s, is the act of sustaining from marriage and sexual relations, until Poseidon had decided to woo her. Medusa broke her vow when she fell in love with Poseidon, angered at what Medusa had done Athena decided to punish Medusa. Slowly each lock of golden-hair turned into a venomous snake, her eyes turned to orbs and any that looked directly into them was turned to stone, and lastly her skin took on a greenish-tint. Upon discovering what she now looked like Medusa fled from home ending up in Africa.
Medusa rivaled the goddess Athena in beauty. Medusa's pride was her mane of golden curls. Athena envied her beauty. Poseidon, the brother of Zeus and Hades, ruled the sea, storms, earth and horses. He was violent, lusty and self centered.
In Euripides’ text The Medea, Medea can easily be painted as the villian. She is a woman who killed her own children in an attempt to spite her husband. But, by examining the text, we can see that she deserves some sympathy. She has little to no control over her own life and has to rely on the will of men. And as a foreigner in Corinth abandoned by her husband, she faces even more challenges than the native women of Corinth did.
Greek v. American Medusa use to be a beautiful maiden who had everything she could ask for, she lived a life of celibacy, and then lost it all. Most stories claim that she followed Athena, however, one version says that she claimed she was better than Athena, causing her awful appearance. Her parents were Phorkys and Keto and she was one of their three daughters. She was the only daughter born a mortal. Soon , though, she fell in love with Poseidon.
Medusa was a very territorial creature who liked her space away from other creatures and beings, and would rage if messed with. Most would only see her face before turning to stone, so her body was said to be in many other forms. It was said that she had a snake like body, probably because the snakes in her hair, but others believed that she had a normal human body. Bigfoot
To some Medea is about love, but it goes deeper than love. Love is the cause of all the wrongs. Medea is mostly about the power Gods have. Not only is it about the power they have, it's about how they use it and what they do with it. It’s also about not letting this power end.
She lived with the other blind monsters". This quotation shows the theme because, Medusa 's pride brought her nothing but misery and snake hair. Another quote is, "Beauty fades swiftly in all mortals, it does not comfort the sick, teach the unskilled or feed the hungry," Said Athena. Athena was explaining to Medusa that her beauty doesn’t do anything useful. So Medusa should 've never boasted about herself.
Although, she is widely touted as a villain, her story shows her as a victim turned monster (both literally and figuratively) by the gruesome turn of events in her life. According to legend, Medusa and her three sisters were priestesses of Athena and lived in one of her temples. Due to her immense beauty, Medusa was extremely well sought-after and had quite a few suitors. One of these suitors, unfortunately, turned out to be the sea god Poseidon
Medea plots her revenge by murdering the king, the bride and her two children in order to make Jason suffer and take away everything Jason cared about. The Greek gods felt that Medea was in her right and they proved this by allowing and even helping her escape in the end of the play
Gantz’s text describes her myth by Poseidon sexually assaulting her in the temple of Athena, and as retaliation for the destruction of Athena’s temple, she changed Medusa into a creature with snakes for hair and the ability to turn anybody who looked at her into stone (Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, 62-63). By using Medusa's head as a weapon in his battles, the hero Perseus pursued and eventually killed the snake-like creature. That illustrates how ancient Greek culture was terrified of powerful women and their sexuality and beauty. With the ability to turn men to stone, Medusa symbolizes the threat that strong women posed to males, and her transformation into a monster is a punishment for her sexual transgression and being a beautiful, innocent
Medea, the protagonist, is a woman driven by extreme emotions and extreme behaviors. Because of the passionate love she had for Jason, she sacrificed everything .. However, now his betrayal of her transformed the beautiful loving passion to uncontrollable anger, hatred and a desperate desire for revenge. Her violent and temperamental heart, previously devoted to Jason, now moving towards its doom.
