Medusa Research Paper

Medusa was born in Ancient Greece, on October 31, 2111 B.C to Phorcys and Ceto. She graduated from Freaky Figurines High School, and received a degree in Awkward Effigy from Deceased Modeling of Greece University. Medusa is still drooling over the Sea God Poseidon (who she has no chance with whatsoever) that looks way better than her, which is obvious he doesn't have snakes for hair. She lived in Ancient Greece for her whole life with Poseidon tell they snuck into Athena’s castle. Which is the whole reason she was cursed along with her sisters who cursed her.

Hi Micquaya. When I think of mental health itself, I do not automatically think of people that are suffering from a psychological issue. Mental health to me is just your psychological status. Mental illness causes me to think a psychological issue. The two are not the same in my eyes. Mental health is just as important as physical health. Physical health is just the status but if I were to say a physical disability it is completely different. The ways to promote good mental health are numerous. Taking care of your body is definitely a good way. Many times our mental status is directly related to our physical health. I know for me, it is hard to think clear when I do not get enough sleep.

In Greek Mythology, there are over hundreds of stories or myths told. One story is the story of Medusa which is well-known around the world. She was young and very alluring at first, but turned into as hideous creature. Medusa is considered one of the most tragic myths ever to be told. Medusas' life was beautiful at first, she lived in the utmost place by the Hesperides beyond Oceanus.

was once a maiden that vowed to celibacy. She one day fell in love with Poseidon and broke her vows. She was punished by the goddess. Every piece of her pretty hair was turned into a snake. Her eyes turned bloodshot, and who ever looked into her eyes turned to stone. In the movie “Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief” Percy, Annabeth and Grover were looking for the pearls, and they wandered into Medusa's lair. She chased after them wanting to turn them to stone, but her head was chopped off by Percy. They took her head and later used it to turn a dragon to stone.

Poseidon met a Nereid named Amphitrite; like her sister Thetis she proved a reluctant bride, but Poseidon finally was able to win her. As husband and wife they played roles very much like those enacted by Zeus and Hera; Poseidon has a weakness for women, and Amphitrite with good cause is angry and vengeful (1). Together they bore three children, Rhode, Triton, and Benthesicyme. Triton was a merman that consisted of human above the waist and fish-shaped below the waist. He is seen many a times blowing a conch shell and can change shape at will. Poseidon had an infatuation with Scylla, daughter of Phorcys, and this angered Amphitrite. Amphitrite changed Scylla into a barking monster with six heads and twelve feet by throwing magical herbs into her bathing pool (2). Poseidon fooled around with thousands of goddesses, nymphs, and mortal women in his lifetime and also married another important goddess. Medusa is best known for her snake covered hair and her evil glaze, but she was married to Poseidon also. She was a part of the Gorgons (three sisters whose hair was writhed with serpents). When Perseus beheaded her, she was pregnant. From her dead body sprang a winged horse, Pegasus, and a son, Chrysaor. Pegasus is best known of the two but Chrysaor is known as "he of the golden sword." Chrysaor wed Callirhië and they had two offspring, one of which was Echidna. Echidna wed Typhon and had four offspring Orthus,

She has no chance of being a hero because she acts out of hurt in her marriage and love turned to hate. She decides to murder the princess, her children, and leave Jason alone. The power Medea takes may be considered severe, yet she has made the decision not to be a silent wife who does what her husband tells her to do. David M. Schaps writes, “As Medea sees it-or at least as she presents it-her problems are all based in the fact that she is a woman. Because she is a woman she is powerless; because she is a woman she is peculiarly vulnerable in matters of love; because she is a woman she

There are many different ways the story of Perseus and Medusa are told. One of the ways that is told is that, Acrisius was the king of Argos, the oracle of Delphi told the king that his daughter Danae’s son will one day kill him. Acrisius couldn’t let that happen. Acrisius was scared, so he deprived his daughter with any possible contact with outside world by, locking her in a bronze tower. The tower only had a small

Medusa was a murder victim. Medusa’s head was looked at as a treaured item, her eyes would turn people into stone. Perseus, Zeus’s son, a Greek hero, and a monster slayer was sent on a mission. Perseus’ mission was to chop Medusa’s head off to use her eyes to

Also her appearance is different. In Perseus, “He came to the island of the Gorgons”(D’Aulaires 118). This shows that in this story that there are three sisters and they are called the Gorgon sisters. In Percy Jackson, they go to the “Gardening EMPORIO TIA EME.” This shows that the place that they found Medusa was a more modern type stone yard place. They way that they killed Medusa was different. In Perseus, “Perseus swooped down, and with one deft stroke he cut off the Medusa’s head.”(D’Aulaires 118) He went and just cut off his head and got it done with. In Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, they had a whole big chase and running around the garden. Then finally, Percy was able to sneak up on her. “Heads up”. (Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief scene 14). Annabeth had driven the car and knocked Percy and Medusa on the ground and Percy came up behind her and cut off her head and said Heads

After Medusa's affair with Poseidon she got pregnant with two children, Pegasus a winged horse, and Chrysaor, he of the Golden sword. They were sprang from Medusa's neck when Perseus cut her head. This myth of Medusa and Perseus is one of the most famous ones. Perseus was the

What kind of woman would go to an extreme to kill not only her king and his daughter, but also her most precious gift, children, all due to love? Euripides Greek drama Medea, which dates back to 431 B.C.E conveys this image of a woman named Medea, who was not only a powerful foreigner who did the impossible to follow the man she loved through ocean waters, but also, viewed as a witch who threatened lives and who was feared. Does Medea really deserve or convey an aura of being a witch? or convey characteristics of being a human being? Her actions seem to show traits of being a woman deeply in love, human qualities, rather than a witch.

However, he shows Medea and her primal response to pain as a life figure, to bring pain upon those who brought pain to her. As we look at Medea, she transforms into a bloody warrior, a cruel heartbroken woman, full of vengeance. Her passionate love turns into distasteful revenge. In order to combat pain, Medea erases her vulnerability and transforms from a sensitive and pitiful woman, into the strongest warrior on the battlefield. Her strength is bloody retaliation, being heartless and cold in nature.

As a mother, Medea on the surface is not the best, as she eventually kills her children, ignoring their pleas for mercy ("Mother, don't kill us"). However, we must not ignore the heartache and pain that Medea endures in killing them. It takes incredible conviction to carry it out ("parted from you, my life will be all pain and

Most of them were overcome or killed by them. Bellerophon killed Chimera, the three-headed monster that appears to be made of leftover bits from a dragon, a goat, and a lion. Echidna’s child the Colchian Dragon was shown more mercy, and merely lulled to slumber in Jason’s effort to retrieve the Golden Fleece that it guarded. Her half-human, half-lion daughter the Sphinx killed herself, either by throwing herself from a cliff or devouring her own body, when Oedipus was able to answer her riddles. There is very little information on her daughter Gorgon, other than as some point she became three daughters and not one. Regardless, Euryale, Medusa, and Stheno all shared hideous faces and hair consisting of writhing, angry, serpents. Of the three, only Medusa was mortal, which is probably the origin of why her being a child of Echidna is sometimes questioned. It is probably also why only her death is noted, at the hands of Perseus.

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.