Do you see Medusa as a monster, a victim, or a hero? Share your thoughts below.
Her "crime" was beauty. She caught the eye of Poseidon (god of the sea and earthquakes). Depending on the translation, Medusa was either seduced, courted, or raped by Poseidon inside Athena’s sacred shrine. Enraged by the desecration of her temple—and unable to punish the god—Athena turned Medusa’s lovely hair into serpents and made her face so terrible that any man who looked upon her would turn to stone. erotic medusa
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in his 1922 essay "Medusa’s Head," argued that the petrification represents the —a terrifying yet awe-inspiring sight. He suggested that the snakes were a displacement of pubic hair, and turning men to stone was a reaction to the fear of castration when viewing the female genitals. Do you see Medusa as a monster, a victim, or a hero