Medusa who was she?

Answer 1

Medusa was one of the Greek monsters known as a gorgon, a vicious beast with sharp fangs, hair of snakes, whose gaze turned men and women to stone. She was once a beautiful Athena priestess, until the day that Posiedon raped her in the Parthenon. The Parthenon belonged to a goddess named Athena. She was so mad at what happened in her temple that she punished Medusa and turned her into a Gorgon.

Answer:Medusa is Poseidon's girlfriend. When Poseidon and Medusa met together at Athena, the goddess of Wisdom's temple, Athena turned Medusa into a monster with hair like snakes. She was very dangerous since anyone who looks at her eyes, they turn into stone. After Medusa's head was chopped off, if you look at her eyes, this time, you become petrified.

Medusa can only hurt some one if they look into her eyes and they will turn to stone.

Answer 2

Answer:Medusa is Poseidon's girlfriend. When Poseidon and Medusa met together at Athena, the god of Wisdom's temple, Athena turned Medusa into a monster with hair as snake. She was very vulnerable since anyone who looks at her eyes, they turn into stone. After Medusa's head was chopped off, if you look at her eyes, this time, you become petrified.

Other Answer:

Medusa was a beautiful priestess at the temple of Athena. To be a priest or priestess of Athena you had to vow to be a virgin and be chaste. Medusa vowed but she wished she would be as beautiful as the goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite and to have a lover. One day the god of the sea Poseidon saw Medusa at the temple. Medusa seduced him and they became lovers in Athena's temple. Athena was enraged at Medusa and contacted her. Medusa made sacrifices and begged for mercy from Athena. Athena turned Medusa's long flowing hair to snakes and made her so beautiful that whenever anyone looked at her they would turn to stone. Medusa was banished to the Isle of The Gorgons and was later beheaded by Perseus, the prince of Argos.

Answer 3

Medusa was one of Athena's follower's all of the goddesses followers were to remain virgins just as the goddess herself had vowed to. Well one day Medusa's uncle Poseidon saw her worshiping in Athena's Temple.She was very beautiful so he went into the temple and raped her.When Medusa cried out to Athena for help Athena got angry and instead of helping her she turned her ugly turned Medusa's locks of golden hair into horrible snakes. And so she could never again make love to anyone,Cursed her with the power to turn anyone she looked at into stone.

Answer 4

Medusa was a nice young teenager who had fallen in love with the sea god Poseidon.

They wanted a safe place to talk and found an empty temple and started to kiss. They knew it was Athena's temple but they didn't know that Athena was watching them from the skies. Athena was so angry she turned Medusa into a monster that could look at people in the eyes and turn them to stone. When Medusa looked at Poseidon he got frightened and ran away but didn't turn to stone because Poseidon was immortal. Afterwards she lived with her sisters Stethano and Eurayle who had also turned ugly over the years and slept until Perseus killed her.

Answer 5

Medusa is the daughter of Phorcys, who was a god who presided over the hidden dangers of the sea, and Keto who was a goddess who personified the dangers of the sea; in particular Medusa and her sisters were credited as creators of sea reefs.

Answer 2:

So none of them was a goddess.

Answer 6

a woman from ancient Greek mythology who has snakes for hair and is considered a monster.

Answer 7

In Greek mythology, she was a Gorgan known to turn anyone to stone once they set eyes on her. She is a woman with green skin and has snakes instead of hair on her head.

Answer 8

Medusa isn't a cyclops, she's a Gorgon.

Answer 9

Dead, by the sword of Perseus.