Medusa Research Paper

Many ask if Medusa was demigod,half­god or maybe even a monster. But in reality
medusa is a gorgon. And what do you need to be classified as a gorgon? Well all you need is
venomous snakes as hair and a power that can turn people into stone just by making eye contact
with them, but i'll get into how she became like this later on. First ill tell the background of
medusa. Medusa parents were Phorcys and Ceto, Phorcys being the dad and Ceto being the
mom. When Phorcys and Ceto got together they had 3 girls, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa. But
only 2 of these girls were gorgons.Medusa was not a gorgon at first when she was born, she was
actually a beatiful women said to have golden like hair, and another interesting thing is that both
of her sisters were immortal, while

medusa was mortal. But the thing people are asking now is
how did medusa become that hideous thing we all know of today? Well medusa was a chaste
meaning she wanted to stay a virgin. But the problem was that Poseidon laid his eyes on her.
And medusa being the beautiful women that she was poseidon wanted her,but medusa didn't
want nothing to do with him.So Medusa went to Athenas temple to take safety, being that Athena
was the goddness of virginty. But while in the temple of Athena Medusa was raped by Poseidon.
And here's the catch, instead of poseidon being punished, Athena punished Medusa. And how
did she punish her? Well by turning her into a gorgon of course. There is also another story that
says that Medusa actually falls in love with Poseidon after she was wooed by him. And Medusa
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ends up forgetting her morals and marries Poseidon. After marrying Poseidon the same thing
happens, she gets punished by Athena and turns Medusa into a hideous and ferocious women
with venomous snakes as hair, no matter which story you read Medusa gets turned into a Gorgon
by Athena as a way of punish for doing something with Poseidon. But what happens to Medusa
after she becomes this thing that we can't even look at without turning into stone.

After she had
nowhere else to go, they say medusa fled to africa and moved place to place. And along the way
they say that medusa dropped some of her venomous snakes, apparently this is the reason why
africa is the home of so many venomous reptiles. But Medusas life ended with being beheaded
by perseus the son of Zeus and Danaë. They say he defeated Medusa by using a mirror shield,
Hermes' winged sandals and Hades' cap of invisibility. This allowed him the stealth and speed he
needed to defeat Medusa. But even after death Medusa's head was still deadly, her eyes could
still turn people into stone, so Perseus thought it was a great idea to use her head as a weapon,
which he did. But what is the moral of the story of Medusa? For me the moral of Medusa is that
being beautiful can either be a gift or a curse, also depending on how act and use that beauty.For
medusa it was more of a curse. And the Greeks probably came up with this myth to scare young
women to stay or become chaste. And this story still exist today just because it shows how
women can have power like they did back then, and also because it just such a good

story.