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Was it just men who turned to stone when they looked at Medusa?
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No, all people and living things did. 'Men' is used to mean 'mankind', and therefore all humankind.
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The mythological creature who turned people to stone?
I don't know of any Egyptian goddess who turned people to stone, but the Greek Medusa was a monster so hideous any living creature that looked at her would turn to stone. In some versions of the myth she is a daughter of the gods and sister to the Gordons. In others she was a beautiful young mortal who was so vain that she insulted Athena who turned her into a monster.
Where did Athena bring Medusa after she punished her?
After punishing Medusa by turning her hair into snakes and making her face so horrifying that anyone who looked at her would be turned to stone, Athena brought her to the island of Sarpedon as a permanent exile. It is said that Medusa's mere presence on the island turned it into a desolate and barren wasteland.
What happened between Athena and Medusa?
Athena was angry that Medusa slept with Poseidon in her temple, so she turned her into a Gorgon. ____ Some myths say Medusa was a priestess of Athena and that she (Medusa) was raped by Poseidon in Athena's temple. Athena didn't care that Medusa was raped Athena just cared that her temple was defiled.
What was the Medusa?
Medusa was a female demon in Greek mythology. She was depicted as having an ugly and frightening face, with snakes in her hair; in fact, she was considered so deadly that just looking at her could turn a person to stone.
How did Perseus feel after cutting off Medusa's head?
Safe because Perseus killed Medusa for a good reason. 1. Medusa is evil and Perseus is a hero. 2. Medusa killed a lot of men and women just by turning them into stones. 3. Medusa will be punished for being evil and Perseus will be rewarded for being a hero. Perseus is the hero who decapitated Medusa's head off her body by using his sword. Perseus is very smart and knows how to kill Medusa because he uses his shield as a reflection so that he won't look at her in the eyes just so he can see her using his shield as a mirror just by looking at it. He tricked Medusa and removed her head from her body!
What did Medusa do to mortals?
Medusa turned mortals into stone, just by looking at them. Athena had made her so ugly that she would turn any person who looked directly at her into stone on sight.
What formed medusa?
Medusa forms stone bodies of the person that has just looked into her eyes
What do Medusa form?
Medusa forms stone bodies of the person that has just looked into her eyes
Why couldn't Percy look directly at aunt em?
Medusa and her two sisters (collectively known as the Gorgons) were cursed by Athena to have hideous appearances (e.g. snakes for hair) and gazes that turned people to stone. If Percy had looked Medusa in the eye, he would have ended up as an addition to her statue collection.
The mythological creature who turned people to stone?
I don't know of any Egyptian goddess who turned people to stone, but the Greek Medusa was a monster so hideous any living creature that looked at her would turn to stone. In some versions of the myth she is a daughter of the gods and sister to the Gordons. In others she was a beautiful young mortal who was so vain that she insulted Athena who turned her into a monster.
What does Medusa want Percy to do in The Lightning Thief?
She basically just wants him to get turned into stone.
Where did Athena bring Medusa after she punished her?
After punishing Medusa by turning her hair into snakes and making her face so horrifying that anyone who looked at her would be turned to stone, Athena brought her to the island of Sarpedon as a permanent exile. It is said that Medusa's mere presence on the island turned it into a desolate and barren wasteland.
How many gorgons were there in Greek mythology?
The 3 Gorgons were Medusa and her two sisters. Their hair was a tight bundle of snakes, and Medusa was so terrifying, that, according to legend, she would freeze men in stone just by looking right at them. Perseus defeated Medusa by looking at her in a bronze mirror so he wouldn't be turned to stone..
Medusa who was she?
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.
Is Medusa evil like the devil?
Medusa was neither evil before her transformation, nor after. She was just another pretty girl who met very unfortunate circumstances. She never even left the Island of the Gorgons to terrorize the people.
In The Lightning Thief who killed Medusa Percy or his friend?
Percy, Annabeth told him to since he had the better weapon and Medusa didn't want to kill him, just turn him into a statue of stone.
Why do you turn to stone if you look into medusas eyes?
Medusa was turned into a Gorgon by reason of either two things: 1. Medusa and Poseidon were caught together at Athena's temple, and since Athena was promised to Poseidon, Athena could not punish him, so she punished Medusa by changing her into a monster. or 2. Medusa was a normal human woman that worked in the temple of Athena. Medusa thought herself to be more beautiful than any goddess, even Athena. When Athena found out about this, she turned Medusa into a monster that no one would want to look at. One attribute of Medusa's curse was to have eyes that turned anything into stone once they were looked into. Just a fraction of a look was enough. Just to show that no one would ever look upon her in beauty again. Perseus, the killer of Medusa, used a shield to look upon the reflection of Medusa, since a reflection will not harm you. As a side note, there is some evidence that the myth is based around the real illness, Seefer's disease (a.k.a. Human Statue Syndrome), which causes one's skin to harden in roughly twenty minutes (this being said, there have only been a handful of cases known to modern medicine).
