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The triple form is not primitive, it is merely an instance of a general tendency... which makes of each woman goddess a trinity, which has given us the Horae, the Charites, the Semnai, and a host of other triple groups. It is immediately obvious that the Gorgons are not really three but one + two. The two unslain sisters are mere appendages due to custom; the real Gorgon is Medusa. [13] Freud, Sigmund (Summer 2017). "Medusa's Head". The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. The Hogarth Press. Vol. XVIII, p. 273 Archetypal literary criticism continues to find psychoanalysis useful. Beth Seelig chooses to interpret Medusa's punishment as resulting from rape rather than the common interpretation of having willingly consented in Athena's temple, as an outcome of the goddess' unresolved conflicts with her own father Zeus. [20] Feminism

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As the only daughter of a merchant whose wife passed away, you were expecting to follow the family’s tradition in the financial field. By the education you’ve received since you were a child, nothing suggested that there was a different plan concerning your future underway... Until one day, when your father announced that you were now a part of a divine, marital contract through which you would become one of the many wives of Poseidon, the Tyrant of the Seas. Language: English Words: 36,165 Chapters: 9/? Comments: 42 Kudos: 207 Bookmarks: 29 Hits: 5,438 Come along with me on this journey while she figures out secrets of her past and how everything happens for a reasonAccording to Hesiod and Aeschylus, she lived and died on Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. The 2nd-century BC novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth as part of their religion. But why should the Sea God care? The absence of one fish meant nothing compared to the hordes of children vacating his water daily. Wilk, Stephen (2000). Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195124316. Her,” Poseidon spoke, his voice so deep it felt like it would rattle your bones. The head priest seems confused, before he notices that Poseidon is squatted in front of you. He gripped your chin tightly, holding your head up so he could stare into your gaze with piercing sea blue eyes, “I will choose her as my bride.”

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a b Johnston, Elizabeth (6 November 2016). "The Original 'Nasty Woman' ". The Atlantic . Retrieved 5 December 2018.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"). Ovid, Metamorphoses, Brookes More, Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

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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. [18] Psychoanalysis

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To de-naturalize conceptions of the female body as dangerous, Cixous unravels the relationship between sexual difference and fear through the Medusa. Medusa as femme fatale represents a delusion of the male gaze motivated by a fear of “castration,” or a loss of identity and authority. Contrary to emphasizing an essential identity of “woman,” the epigraph (a passage situated at the beginning of “Le Rire”) emphasizes the category of women and corresponding female sexuality as learned. Cixous’s essay, then, probes its readers to question the naturalization of women as a homogeneous, dangerous category: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. Pythian Ode 12). Noted by Marjorie J. Milne in discussing a red-figured vase in the style of Polygnotos, ca. 450–30 BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Milne noted that "It is one of the earliest illustrations of the story to show the Gorgon not as a hideous monster but as a beautiful woman. Art in this respect lagged behind poetry." (Marjorie J. Milne, "Perseus and Medusa on an Attic Vase" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin New Series, 4.5 (January 1946, pp. 126–130) 126.p.) Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.798: "the Sovereign of the Sea attained her love in chaste Minerva's temple" ( Brookes More translation) or "in Minerva’s temple Neptune, lord of the Ocean, ravished her" ( Frank Justus Miller translation, as revised by G. P. Goold) Whether Ovid means that Medusa was a willing participant is unclear. Hard, p. 61, says she was "seduced"; Grimal, s.v. Gorgons, p. 174, says she was "ravished"; Tripp, s.v. Medusa, p. 363 says she "yielded". In the original Latin text, Ovid uses the verb "vitiasse" which is translated to mean "violate" or "corrupt" line 798.