Enraged by this, Athene turned Medusa into the snake-haired figure we know today.Ĭlassicist and comedian Natalie Haynes covers both stories in her fourth novel, Stone Blind. In many parts of the mythology, Medusa was a beautiful maiden who caught the eye of Poseidon, the god of the sea, who seduced her in Athene’s temple.
In the original myth, Perseus’s grandfather forced Perseus out of his kingdom and King Polydectus tasked him to kill and bring back the head of Medusa.īefore Medusa was Perseus’s trophy, she was the mortal Gorgon sister of Sthenno and Euryale.
The classic Greek story of Perseus gets given a fresh perspective in Stone Blind, looking on the perspective of the legendary Gorgon Medusa.
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