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The Medusa story has also been interpreted in contemporary art as a classic case of rape-victim blaming, by the goddess Athena. Inspired by the #metoo movement , contemporary figurative artist Judy Takács returns Medusa's beauty along with a hashtag stigmata in her portrait, #Me(dusa)too.
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium,” Episode 3 of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” This story also contains a discussion of sexual ...
Stone Blind is a novel retelling the Greek myth of the gorgon Medusa. It was written by Natalie Haynes , a British classicist and writer. The book was nominated for best fiction book at the British Book Awards .
Medusa is a character in the 1964 film 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. The myth of the Gorgon was the basis for the 1964 Hammer horror film, The Gorgon, which "abandoned the traditional myth entirely and tried to tell a new story". [14] Medusa appears in two DC Comics-based animated TV series.
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher is a 1979 collection of essays by the American science writer Lewis Thomas. It was published by Viking Press in 1979 and reissued by Penguin Books in 1995. Most of the essays in the book had first appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Medusa, a princess of Iolcus as daughter of King Pelias and Queen Anaxibia, daughter of Bias. [9] Medusa, a resident of Pherae and daughter of Orsilochus. [10] She was probably the sister of Diocles [11] and Dorodoche, said by some to be the wife of Icarius. [12] Medusa married Polybus, king of Corinth and thus, adopted mother of Oedipus. [10]
Probably the best-known story about Medusa is about her death. A dishonorable king tasked Perseus, a mythological Greek hero, with bringing him an impossible gift: Medusa’s head. With divine ...
The hair upon Medusa's head is frequently represented in works of art in the form of snakes. Freud considered that, as penis symbols derived from the pubic hair, they serve to mitigate the horror of the complex, [2] as a form of overcompensation. [3] This sight of Medusa's head makes the spectator stiff with terror, turns him to stone.