Mᴇᴅᴜsᴀ |Gʀᴇᴇᴋ ᴍʏᴛʜᴏʟᴏɢʏ| .©

Medusa has not always been a monster, on the contrary, in the beginning she was a splendid girl who had developed the ability to seduce men with just her eyes, so much so that from afar she was invaded by none other than the god of the sea, Poseidon. Legend has it that Medusa was transformed into a monster by Athena, as a punishment for lying with Poseidon in one of her temples, while according to still other versions, Athena was averse to Medusa because she had dared to compete with her in beauty. She was relegated to an island beyond the ocean, where the other Gorgons, Steno and Euryalus, also lived, two demigods who, unlike Medusa, were immortal and did not age. The king of Serifos, Polydette, sent Perseus to kill Medusa, thus thinking of getting rid of him in order to marry his mother; once Perseus reached the place where the Gorgons lived, he found them sleeping: with the hand guided by Athena and looking at the reflection in the shield to avoid being petrified, he managed to behead Medusa: the winged horse Pegasus and the giant Crisaore, the children that the Gorgon expected from Poseidon. Perseus took with him the head of Medusa, which had not lost its power to petrify with the gaze, and used it as a weapon against numerous other adversaries and enemies.

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