Medusa 3 Gorgons

In later myths (mainly in Ovid) Medusa was the only Gorgon to possess snake locks because they were a punishment from Athena. Accordingly, Ovid relates that the once beautiful mortal was punished by Athena with a hideous appearance and loathsome snakes for hair for having been raped in Athena's temple by Poseidon. Medusa is the daughter of Phorkys and Keto. She is the only one of the three sisters known as Gorgons that was born a mortal. Medusa was once very beautiful but she was cursed by Athena. The goddess Athena gave her snakes for hair and made her so ugly that anyone that stared at her turned to stone.It was Poseidon who seduced Medusa and raped her in one of Athena's temples. Violating the sanctity of any temple called for punishment, and so

Medusa and her two sisters, Stheno and Euryale, were turned into the three Gorgons by Athena. The transformation was a punishment. Of the three Gorgons of classical Greek mythology, only Medusa is mortal. ... Many later stories claim that each of three Gorgon sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, had snakes for hair and that they had the power to turn anyone who looked at them to stone. Is Medusa a demigod or a half-god?? Neither or god or goddess she's not a demigod she was a gorgon. Her parents the sea titans Poreys and Ceto. Medusa was a monster in Greek mythology, known as a Gorgon. She had the face of a hideous woman, but had poisonous snakes on her head, instead of hair. She was the daughter of Phorcys, a God of the sea, and Ceto, a female sea God. Phorcys is said to have had claws for legs and skin covered with red spikes. It is more commonly agreed that Phorcys, a "merman-sea god," was the father of Medusa (Grischy). Ceto is believed by most to be Medusa's mother. She was a sea monster that inspired the name Cetaceans, which is what whales and other porpoises are called