Ancient Greek Gorgons

Firstly, Medea is someone with very wicked intentions who is a villain only to an extent because

Before Medusa became cursed, she was a normal woman who lived in Athens, Greece. She was a very beautiful women and she was aware of that. Medusa was quit a narsissist. She was also Athena’s priestess. Athena was the goddess of wisdom and war. One requirment to be Athena’s priestess was to be a virgin. Although, one day

It's a myth about a goddess that lives in heaven. She gives 3 gourds to a messenger that has to bring them from heaven to earth without opening them. The 3 gourds were ment to be for the first women and man on earth. When the messenger was on his way he was so curious that he opened the gourds. In the frist two gourds there wasn't anything special, but in the last one deceases and negativity got out of the gourd. The messenger wanted to put the deceases and negativity back inside of the gourd, but he couldn't. When he arrived on earth, he gave the gourds and ran away as fast as he could, because he was scared that the goddess would be very mad.

For Eastern cultures multiple body parts such as eyes and limbs was something to be worshiped. Greco-Roman culture turned these attributes into mutations. Having excessive or less than a normal amount of body parts was a deformity, something to be feared and loathed. Egyptian gods such as Horus and Anubis had an appearance part human and part animal. For the Greeks it appears they were transformed into fearsome beasts such as the Minotaur, “[…] the Minotaur, a monster with a bull’s body and a human head. It was exceedingly strong and fierce and was kept in a labyrinth constructed by Daedalus, so artfully contrived that whoever was enclosed in it could by no means find his way out unassisted. Here the Minotaur roamed, and was fed with human victims” (Bullfinch 181). The Babylonians took the Sumerian’s nurturing mother goddess, Tiamat, “Mother Tiamat personified and ruled the salt waters” (Rosenberg 6) and turned her into an irrational and enraged creature and Marduk vanquished her. Similarly the

It frolics in the woods of the legendary Mount Pelion in Greece, it marches on the wide green fields above Aslan’s stone tablet in Narnia, and it hunts in the damp darkness of the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts. It has appeared throughout history and across oceans, a resilient beast which is half-horse, half-human. Because of its pervasiveness, it is an ideal tool for analyzing human societies and relationships. As one of the most familiar Greek monsters on the planet, its name is easily recognizable by many people all over the world: the centaur.

Many monsters starred in many greek stories. And a lot of them stayed in our memories and will continue to for years to come. Medusa was a popular one she was a gorgon who turned people to stone with a glance. The Kraken was a sea monster that could only be released by Poseidon the god of sea. The Minotaur was a beast that was half bull and half man. Most of these beasts however were slain by gods or

The story begins with Percy, who is being chased by the two Gorgon sisters, but he is approached by a hippie named June who gives the choice to live life in peace and safety in the ocean closest to him or go the camp upon him to fight and face pain for he might possibly help save the world. Percy chooses to fight, and he makes it to camp defeats the Gorgons with the help of the camp’s current guard’s, Hazel and Frank. The hippie lady suddenly

Medea separates herself from the rules set for Athenian women with her ability to displays a cruel, driven by revenge, and Machiavellian women. Her well planned out revenge would have been impossible for any woman average Athenian women. Medea declines the thought of women being inferior of all parts of the body and mind. Her use of how women were regarded and thought of by all Greek men, enabled her to Medea achieve her plan she had from the start. She killed the queen, her children, a destroyed her husband's future for happiness or recovery. Medea was able to go through with her revenge since she became possessed by her eager for revenge. Her cruel and nasty mindset over took her completely. Medea was a very clever woman that used ignorance

One of the most notorious villains in Greek mythology is Medusa, the treacherous woman with snakes for hair. She is universally portrayed as a symbol of evil, as she was frightening to look at, and would turn anyone who dared glance at her into stone. Medusa is understood by many only as a monster without compassion or pain. Medusa, however, is the most interesting and misunderstood character in all of Greek mythology because she was a victim of Poseidon and Athena, she did not intend to hurt others, and she was killed not because of her actions, but rather as a token gift to a King.

One of the monsters in Greek mythology is Medusa; Medusa is a monster that was once golden-haired, fair women and a priestess of Athena, she was devoted to a life of celibacy. Medusa was pursued by Poseidon and after falling for him she forgot her vows and married him. The Gods punished her in the most terrible way, every beautiful strand of hair turned into a venomous snake, her once kind and love inspiring eyes turned into blood-shot, raging orbs that terrified any onlooker and he skin turned a repulsive greenish tint. Seeing how repulsive she is Medusa fled her home where she turned into a character worthy of her appearance. She fled to Africa, where she wandered endlessly from place to place, young snakes dropped from her hair and according

Medea was a protagonist of the Greek play. Her homeland was in Colchis which is considered barbarian territory, the edge of the earth. She was a witch and a princess, she used her powers and influenced her husband, Jason to secure the Golden Fleece. She fell in love with Jason and fled the country and the family lived with Jason in Lolcus. While Medea escaped, she killed her brother and threw his overboard.

Lots of people are familiar with the Medusa, the monster woman with a head of snakes who can turn you to stone with a single look. Not many of us know that in early stories Medusa was very beautiful. Even fewer folks have heard of the event that connects Medusa to the goddess Athena--an event that lead to Medusa becoming the monster we are familiar with. Medusa is one of the three Gorgon Sisters born to the sea god Phorcys and his siter/wife Ceto.

Phanariots: an elite that emerged in Constantinople in a neighborhood around the patriarchy. They are called Phanariots because they lived in the Phanar. They were a commercial middle class, whose wealth was based on comers. Not only they were successful business men who had business across the Ottoman empire and Western Europe; but also, they acquired higher education in the west. University of Padua was their favorite university. Many of the heads of the phanariots’ households were alumni of the University of Padua having studied philosophy, law and, in particular, medicine. Even though, the Pharariots were culturally Greek; However, they were not ethically Greek. They were an imperial elite in a sense that they were from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Imagine a person so hideous that when you see her, you’re turned to stone. Now imagine that this person has two sisters with the same horrendous power! The Greeks believed such a person existed and they were known as the Gorgons all throughout Ancient Greece. The daughters of Phorcys the god of seas and Ceto the goddess of sea monsters. The gorgons were know as three powerful female monsters the sisters Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa. Of the three sisters only Medusa was mortal, and so it was her head which King Polydekts of Serphos commanded the young hero Perseus to fetch. The three sisters did not start out this way, it was a tragic event.

Poseidon became infatuated with Medusa, he seduced her into the temple of Athena (goddess of wisdom). Because of this, Athena became infuriated and took her anger out on Medusa. She was so angry that she turned the maiden into a Gorgon, a terrifying female creature with hairs of venomous snakes and whose glance will turn a person to stone.