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.

You are so strong," said TikTok user @r.bree.xo, showing her inking of the Gorgon. Videos of people showing their Medusa tattoos on the app are racking up hundreds of thousands of views, as many ...

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 ...

Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores how the snake-haired Gorgon transformed from a hideous monster into a beautiful femme fatale.

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 ...

R Medusa Undone Through 5/18: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat-Sun 2:30 and 7:30 PM (running in repertory with Corona), Otherworld Theatre, 3914 N. Clark, 773-857-2116, otherworldtheatre.org , $20 or pay what ...