Campbell, Joseph (1968). The Masks of God, Vol. 3: Occidental Mythology. London: Penguin Books. pp.152–153. ISBN 978-0140194418. We have already spoken of Medusa and of the powers of her blood to render both life and death. We may now think of the legend of her slayer, Perseus, by whom her head was removed and presented to Athene. Professor Hainmond assigns the historical King Perseus of Mycenae to a date c. 1290 B.C., as the founder of a dynasty; and Robert Graves–whose two volumes on The Greek Myths are particularly noteworthy for their suggestive historical applications–proposes that the legend of Perseus beheading Medusa means, specifically, that 'the Hellenes overran the goddess's chief shrines' and 'stripped her priestesses of their Gorgon masks', the latter being apotropaic faces worn to frighten away the profane. That is to say, there occurred in the early thirteenth century B.C. an actual historic rupture, a sort of sociological trauma, which has been registered in this myth, much as what Freud terms the latent content of a neurosis is registered in the manifest content of a dream: registered yet hidden, registered in the unconscious yet unknown or misconstrued by the conscious mind. And in every such screening myth–in every such mythology {that of the Bible being, as we have just seen, another of the kind}–there enters in an essential duplicity, the consequences of which cannot be disregarded or suppressed. In which our fish/reader is reincarnated] Language: English Words: 3,623 Chapters: 3/? Comments: 18 Kudos: 150 Bookmarks: 28 Hits: 1,969 Lccn 2001041823 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8961 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1200086 Openlibrary_edition JEANPIERRE VERNANT from Death in the Eyes and In the Mirror of Medusa 1985 translated by Thomas Curley and Froma I Zeitlin Frontality ... Gusseted with a map, family trees, notes and glossaries, this feminist corrective oddly recalls the kind of old-fashioned mythological compendia that Higgins grew up with. She first fell under the spell of the myths when an older brother bought her a copy of Kenneth McLeish’s Children of the Gods. Initially, she suggests, it was the pictures that enthralled her – emphatic illustrations by Elisabeth Frink that exude dark solidity.

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But first it must be said that […] there is, at this time, no general woman, no one typical woman. What they have in common I will say. But what strikes me is the infinite richness of their individual constitutions: you can’t talk about a female sexuality, uniform, homogeneous, classifiable into codes.pure smut/nsfw ; minors do not interact! Language: English Words: 5,353 Chapters: 20/? Comments: 10 Kudos: 621 Bookmarks: 43 Hits: 12,254 What is relatively new is the way in which female mythological characters are now being placed at the centre of narratives in which they’ve traditionally been peripheral. Taking her lead from the likes of Pat Barker and Madeline Miller, Higgins’s Greek Myths: A New Retelling is narrated by female characters. Or rather, it’s woven by female characters, because to give voice to this very 21st-century impulse, she uses a classical literary convention known as ekphrasis, or the telling of tales through descriptions of striking works of art – in this case, tapestries. Perseus then flew to Seriphos, where his mother was being forced into marriage with the king, Polydectes, who was turned into stone by the head. Then Perseus gave the Gorgon's head to Athena, who placed it on her shield, the Aegis. [15] Medusa is played by a countertenor in Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault's opera, Persée (1682). She sings the aria "J'ay perdu la beauté qui me rendit si vaine" ("I have lost the beauty that made me so vain").

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Medusa sculpture by Luciano Garbati, which portrays her clutching the severed head of Perseus (2008) [37] WE UPDATE EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY ❤️ Language: English Words: 15,200 Chapters: 12/100 Comments: 103 Kudos: 167 Bookmarks: 26 Hits: 2,841 APOLLODORUS from The Library second century BCE translated by James George Frazer The Beauty of Medusa But why should the Sea God care? The absence of one fish meant nothing compared to the hordes of children vacating his water daily. Méduse en Sorbonne.” Le Rire de la Méduse: Regards Critiques: ed. Frédéric Regard and Martine Reid. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015.

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Jane Ellen Harrison argues that "her potency only begins when her head is severed, and that potency resides in the head; she is in a word a mask with a body later appended... the basis of the Gorgoneion is a cultus object, a ritual mask misunderstood." [13] In the Odyssey xi, Homer does not specifically mention the Gorgon Medusa:

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It’s a peaceful evening on your island of Sarpedon. Well, as peaceful as it can be considering the warning your serpentine companions hissed in your ear of a dilapidated boat on the shoreline. Great. Another pompous demigod pissing themselves at the notion of claiming the trophy that is your head. Much like the majority of your garden decor.

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COLUCCIO SALUTATI from On the Labors of Hercules c 13811391 translated by Lesley Lundeen Medusa as Artful Eloquence a b Johnston, Elizabeth (6 November 2016). "The Original 'Nasty Woman' ". The Atlantic . Retrieved 5 December 2018. Medusa, cursed by the goddess Athena, is stripped away from her beauty-- now, she's a monster, with her ugly features and scaly snakes for hair. Medusa thinks that she can never love again, what with her stony gaze and repulsiveness. But a certain blind woman has caught Medusa's eye and maybe-- just maybe-- Medusa will be able to love once more. Wilk, Stephen (2000). Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195124316.