Lexicon - by Dirk-Boris Rödel
Everyone knows the image, and the female head crowned with snakes is also becoming increasingly popular as a tattoo motif; in ancient Greece, people would certainly never have believed that the image of Medusa could become so popular. After all, it was said that this woman was so ugly that anyone who looked at her would freeze to stone in horror!
But right from the start:
Originally, Medusa, daughter of the sea gods Phorkys and Keto, is even said to have been a downright beguiling beauty. The sea god Poseidon raped Medusa and was surprised by the goddess Athena during his act of violence, but Athena's anger was not directed at the perpetrator but at the victim - today it would be called victim-blaming. In any case, Athena cursed the rape victim and transformed the beautiful Medusa into a hideous monster with scaly skin, glowing eyes, boar tusks and the famous snake hair.
Perseus, son of Zeus, the father of the gods, was next to kill Medusa, who had been disfigured into a monster by Athena. In order not to have to look at her directly, Perseus received a mirrored shield from Athena, in which he only had to see Medusa as a reflection, but not directly, which prevented him from turning to stone when he slew her - this literary trick was also used thousands of years later by Joanne Rowling in the Harry Potter novel "The Chamber of Secrets".
Perseus used the severed head of Medusa as a weapon to banish his enemies to stone and finally Athena pinned Medusa's skull to her shield.
As the image showing the victorious Perseus with the severed head of a rape victim, which has been realized countless times throughout history as a painting, statue or sculpture, no longer appears contemporary today, the artist Luciano Garbati created an alternative depiction of Medusa in 2008 and exhibited it in New York; in this depiction, it is Medusa who victoriously holds the sword in her left hand and in her right the severed skull of Perseus, against whose attack she has apparently successfully defended herself.
Text: Dirk Boris-Rödel & Graphics: Jonas Bachmann(AI: Schlomki)
Lexicon - by Dirk-Boris Rödel
Everyone knows the image, and the female head crowned with snakes is also becoming increasingly popular as a tattoo motif; in ancient Greece, people would certainly never have believed that the image of Medusa could become so popular. After all, it was said that this woman was so ugly that anyone who looked at her would freeze to stone in horror!
But right from the start:
Originally, Medusa, daughter of the sea gods Phorkys and Keto, is even said to have been a downright beguiling beauty. The sea god Poseidon raped Medusa and was surprised by the goddess Athena during his act of violence, but Athena's anger was not directed at the perpetrator but at the victim - today it would be called victim-blaming. In any case, Athena cursed the rape victim and transformed the beautiful Medusa into a hideous monster with scaly skin, glowing eyes, boar tusks and the famous snake hair.
Perseus, son of Zeus, the father of the gods, was next to kill Medusa, who had been disfigured into a monster by Athena. In order not to have to look at her directly, Perseus received a mirrored shield from Athena, in which he only had to see Medusa as a reflection, but not directly, which prevented him from turning to stone when he slew her - this literary trick was also used thousands of years later by Joanne Rowling in the Harry Potter novel "The Chamber of Secrets".
Perseus used the severed head of Medusa as a weapon to banish his enemies to stone and finally Athena pinned Medusa's skull to her shield.
As the image showing the victorious Perseus with the severed head of a rape victim, which has been realized countless times throughout history as a painting, statue or sculpture, no longer appears contemporary today, the artist Luciano Garbati created an alternative depiction of Medusa in 2008 and exhibited it in New York; in this depiction, it is Medusa who victoriously holds the sword in her left hand and in her right the severed skull of Perseus, against whose attack she has apparently successfully defended herself.
Text: Dirk Boris-Rödel & Graphics: Jonas Bachmann(AI: Schlomki)
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