Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

The first thing you might imagine when you hear the name Medusa is most likely along the lines of “the woman with snakes for hair and you’ll turn to stone if you look at her face”. Yes, that is true but that’s not all of it, there’s a whole lot more to her story than what meets the eye. When looking for a myth for this essay, I recalled that Medusa was a part of Greek mythology that I curious about ever since I watched ‘Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief’, which is where I was introduced to Medusa. From the information from the ancient history encyclopedia, saying that the myth of Medusa and Perseus is messed up is an understatement. What made the Greek gods think that it was okay to impregnate the Greek women and trick someone into beheading someone just to flirt with their mom behind their back? …show more content…
Medusa and her sisters were known as the Gorgon sisters. There’s very little information about the Gorgon sisters as a whole after their birth but there are a lot of myths, such as this one, about parts of Medusa’s life and how said life was ended. In some versions of the myth, Sthenno and Euryale were both immortal, however, Medusa was born as a mortal woman with normal hair and wings. When Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom, had found out that Poseidon, the god of the sea, earthquakes and horses, had raped Medusa in her temple, Athena turned Medusa’s hair into snakes that were seemingly sprouting from her head. After this, Medusa was a winged, serpent-haired immortal who was now carrying Poseidon’s two