But Medusa was a victim of the Greek gods as well as a victimizer. The most famous story about her says she was so hideous that people who gazed at her would turn to stone.

Gorgon is filled with lines that cut powerfully to the heart of such injustice. In a poem called “Hematologic,” Pietrucha envisions a resurrected Medusa reflecting on her wounds: I was loved not.

As Newsweek notes, Medusa was one of the three Gorgons of ancient myth, sisters who had snakes for hair. As the legend goes, she was cursed by Athena (as the Greeks called her, or Minerva as the ...

Originally, Medusa was said to be a beautiful mortal woman, unlike her immortal Gorgon sisters, Stheno and Euryale. According to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Medusa was transformed into a monster by ...

Medusa was one of three Gorgon sisters alongside siblings Stheno and Euryale, but she was the only mortal, with her sisters considered immortal beings.

Most people think Medusa had snakes for hair and turned people who looked directly at her into stone. In early Greece, the mortal gorgon was illustrated as hideous and monstrous — sometimes with ...

Medusa has been a popular design choice throughout nearly every style of tattooing, but recently, the Gorgon of Greek mythology has taken on new meaning among a growing sector of collectors.

Tales from Ancient Greece. Ancient Greek mythology. KS2. Perseus and the Gorgon, Medusa. Perseus must fight Medusa, a snake-haired monster - a look and you'll be turned to stone. BBC School Radio.

Medusa is a steamy thriller along the lines of Deceitful Love, with some Succession mixed in. ... Damian, carries a walking stick with a bust of the mythical snake-haired Gorgon as its handle.