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

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