2007-01-16 10:32:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Medusa was a gorgon killed by Perseus. She had snakes for hair and made anyone looking at her turn into stone. She had sex with Poseidon.
2007-01-16 10:45:19 · answer #1 · answered by Luna 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Medusa is also known as "the angry woman" and the whole bit about turning people into stone if they look at her is similar to what happens to a man when he looks at the woman he just enraged with something stupid he said or did.
When a woman is in a rage, she can act like Medusa in a psychic way. When the man looks at her, he is shocked and scared at the same time, thus he cannot move.
This is the legacy of Medusa.
2007-01-16 20:56:52 · answer #2 · answered by Hoolia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Medusa is just one of the three sisters that are called Gorgons. Unlike her other two sisters, Medusa was the only Gorgon that can be killed. Medusa has snakes for hair and was so ugly that one look from her can turn anyone into stones. The only way that you can see her is by her reflection.
Her head was chopped off by perseus (with the help of Athena) as a gift to king Polydectes (of course, Polydectes tricked Perseus to get the Gorgon head so that he can get rid of perseus and marry His mother, Danae). Perseus, used the head to turn Polydectes and his court to stone, thus saving his mother. Pereus gave the Head to Athena, the Goddess of wisdom, which she placed in front of her shield.
One interesting fact about The blood of Medusa. From her blood sprang the winged horse pegasus and the hero Chrysaor.
2007-01-16 18:57:18 · answer #3 · answered by David C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Posiedon and Medusa (in the human form) decided to meet in Athena's temple with help from Medusa's sisters. Posiedon and Medusa made love. When Athena caught them and turned Medusa and her sisters into the Gorgons. Athena made sure that Medusa would see her sisters die so she made Medusa immortal.
2007-01-17 15:25:10 · answer #4 · answered by Writer Girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the Gorgons, and the only one who was mortal. Her gaze could turn whoever she looked upon to stone. There is a particular myth in which Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden. She desecrated Athena's temple by lying there with Poseidon. Outraged, Athena turned Medusa's hair into living snakes.
Medusa was killed by the hero Perseus with the help of Athena and Hermes. He killed her by cutting of her head and gave it to Athena, who placed it in the center of her Aegis, which she wore over her breastplate.
From Medusa's dead body the giant Chrysaor and the winged horse Pegasus, her son by Poseidon, sprang forth.
2007-01-16 20:37:09 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She used to be a very powerful earth-goddess type...but she got framed and now she's seen as a vicious shrew.
Sexists are BAD!!!!
Her head is apotropaic. Put that in your essay and smoke it!
2007-01-16 20:57:53 · answer #6 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out the web. I know that she had snakes on her head
instad of hair.(can't remember what would happen if you looked
upon her) Maybe turn to stone?
2007-01-16 18:37:39 · answer #7 · answered by cheyenne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A librarian can help you find a copy of Bullfich's mythology wich can tell you all about her. Now go do your homework.
2007-01-16 18:42:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Try wikipedia
2007-01-16 18:34:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋