That is to say, there occurred in the early thirteenth century B.C. The cover featured the image of the Gorgon Medusa by Froggi Lupton, which the editors on the inside cover explained "can be a map to guide us through our terrors, through the depths of our anger into the sources of our power as women. As well has having snakes for hair, she was given a serpent-like body and rattlesnake-like tail. 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. [16], In the 20th century, feminists reassessed Medusa's appearances in literature and in modern culture, including the use of Medusa as a logo by fashion company Versace. für den Schild einer Athenestatue im Parthenon, befindet sich die 38 Zentimeter große Marmorskulptur heute in der Münchner Glyptothek, nachdem sie 1815 der bayerische Kronprinz Ludwig aus der Sammlung Rondanini in Rom für die eigene Sammlung erworben hatte. Perseus approached Medusa slowly. Im Spielfilm Kampf der Titanen aus dem Jahre 1981 gehört Medusa zu den von dem Trickspezialisten Ray Harryhausen animierten Figuren. In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion. Von Hermes bekam er geflügelte Schuhe, Nymphen gaben ihm eine Tarnkappe. Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 16. In most versions of the story, she was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus because Polydectes wanted to marry Perseus's mother. Klaus Heinrich, der Berliner Religionsphilosoph, entwickelt anhand des Medusenmythos eine Faszinationsgeschichte. Stick War II: Order Empire. Harrison's translation states "the Gorgon was made out of the terror, not the terror out of the Gorgon."[8]. The three Gorgon sisters—Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale—were all children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys (or "Phorkys") and his sister Ceto (or "Keto"), chthonic monsters from an archaic world. [17][18][19][20] The name "Medusa" itself is often used in ways not directly connected to the mythological figure but to suggest the gorgon's abilities or to connote malevolence; despite her origins as a beauty, the name in common usage "came to mean monster. The head of Medusa is featured on some regional symbols. Besonders bekannte spätere künstlerische Verarbeitungen setzten mit der Renaissance und dem Künstler Benvenuto Cellini ein, dessen Perseus-Plastik diesen beim Bezwingen der Medusa zeigt. Medusa (griechisch Μέδουσα) ist in der griechischen Mythologie eine Gorgone, die Tochter der Meeresgottheiten Phorkys und Keto sowie die Schwester von Stheno und Euryale. Her name and aspects of her character are derived from Greek mythology as her hair has prehensile attributes like that of Medusa the Gorgon 's hair. According to Hesiod and Aeschylus, she lived and died on an island named Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. Sie besaß als einzige der drei Gorgonen eine sterbliche Natur. ), is the Rider-class Servant of Sakura Matou in the Fifth Holy Grail War of Fate/stay night. Luckily, the military forces of the Imperium of Man were able to evacuate the entire surviving civilian population of the planet before it … Medusa and the Gorgons. "[22] Griselda Pollock analyses the passage from horrorism to compassion in the figure of the Medusa through Adriana Cavarero's philosophy and Bracha Ettinger's art and Matrixial theory. Through many of her iterations, Medusa pushes back against a story that seeks to place the male, Perseus, at its center, blameless and heroic. World War I was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918. "[15] In this perspective the "ravishingly beautiful" Medusa (see above) is the mother remembered in innocence; before the mythic truth of castration dawns on the subject. Medusa was one of three Gorgon sisters who lived in a cave at the edges of the known world. It is in this context of the feminist reinterpretation of the Medusa myth that, in 2008, the Argentine-Italian sculptor Luciano Garbati created his sculpture Medusa with the Head of Perseus as a direct riposte to Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus with the Head of Medusa. Luciano Garbati’s Medusa with the Head of Perseus. Das Medusenhaupt im Beutel, flog Perseus mit Pegasos übers Meer nach Äthiopien, wo er die Königstochter Andromeda vor Keto errettete. M.E.D.U.S.A is an ancient, Old Tech super-weapon. She was eventually slain by the hero, Perseus. 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. Medusa was said to be one of the children of Phorcys and Ceto, two primordial sea deities. She remained a priestess to Athena after her death and was risen with fresh hair. Medusa (Medusalith Amaquelin-Boltagon) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Her name and aspects of her character are derived from Greek mythology as her hair has prehensile attributes like that of Medusa the Gorgon's hair. Due to Sakura's unwillingness to participate as a Master, Shinji Matou is instead given control over Rider. "I've seen giant leeches, Taladar Grave Ticks larger than your hand, and even that poxy head lice I picked up in the bilges, but I ain't never seen anything like that thing." Johnston goes on to say that as Medusa has been repeatedly compared to Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, she proves her merit as an icon, finding relevance even in modern politics. The three Gorgon sisters; Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale, were children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys and his sister Ceto, (the spelling vary based on accounts), chthonic monsters from an ancient world.Their genealogy is shared with other sisters named the Graeae.Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound describes them thus: Medusa's Gaze was a power that was given to Kratos in God of War. The Gorgon/Medusa image has been rapidly adopted by large numbers of feminists who recognize her as one face of our own rage. Ihr Verlobter Phineus (Sohn des Belos) wollte trotz der tapferen Tat Andromeda nicht in des Helden Händen lassen, worauf im Zweikampf Perseus das Medusenhaupt einsetzte und so Phineus zu Stein erstarren ließ. The historian Herodotus later placed them in Libya. After he killed Medusa for Aphrodite, Kratos kept Medusa's Head and used its Gorgon powers to turn his enemies into stone. Numerous analyses have made us familiar with the occasion for this: it occurs when a boy, who has hitherto been unwilling to believe the threat of castration, catches sight of the female genitals, probably those of an adult, surrounded by hair, and essentially those of his mother. Weitere berühmte Darstellungen des „Haupt der Medusa“ stammen von Caravaggio und Peter Paul Rubens, das letztere mit Schlangen vom berühmten Tiermaler Frans Snyders. Die Ge… Mit einem gezielten Schlag enthauptete er Medusa und suchte das Weite, während hinter ihm das Geschrei und aufgebrachte Gezeter ihrer entsetzten Schwestern ertönte. Günter Seuren verwendet das Motiv in seinem zeitgenössischen Roman Das Floß der Medusa; einen Roman mit demselben Titel veröffentlichte Vercors 1969. According to the Greek poet Hesiod, Medusa lived on the island of Sarpedon in the Western Ocean near the Hesperides. He believes that one reason for her longevity may be her role as a protector, fearsome and enraged. Im Prozess der Wiedererinnerung und Heilung lenkt sie den Blick, der Darstellung Ovids folgend, auf die erlittene Gewalt der Figur: "Dann bin ich Medusa, die kleine Tochter der Erde und des Meeres, heimlich von Poseidon im Innern eines Tempels vergewaltigt, ich bin die entweihte und für schuldig befundene Unschuld, (…) die, der man den Kopf abschlägt, während sie schläft, deren verstümmelte Überreste ganze Heere in Schrecken versetzten, ich bin, was nach einer Vergewaltigung von einer Frau bleibt. In their contemporary colour scheme they are depicted with emerald green power armour, white helms and black trim. Ihre verzerrten Gesichter werden durch die große Mundpartie mit zahlreichen, oft spitzen Zähnen und heraushängender Zunge gekennzeichnet. The blood of Medusa also spawned the Amphisbaena (a horned dragon-like creature with a snake-headed tail). "[3], Der Titel dieses Artikels ist mehrdeutig. Leveling the magic up further increased its freezing power and gained faster attacks with it. The Fall of Medusa V was a multi-sided military conflict fought on the Imperial Mining World of Medusa V in the Ultima Segmentum that was devoured by a Warp Storm in 999.M41. The three Gorgon sisters— Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale —were children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys (or Phorkys) and his sister Ceto (or Keto), chthonic and Phorkys and Ceto are two of children of Pontus and Gaia monsters from an archaic world. In ancient Greek mythology, Medusa is the most famous of three monstrous sisters known as the Gorgons. Cixous calls writing "an act which will not only 'realize' the decensored relation of woman to her sexuality, to her womanly being, giving her access to her native strength; it will give her back her goods, her pleasures, her organs, her immense bodily territories which have been kept under seal." Their genealogy is shared with other sisters, the Graeae, as in Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, which places both trinities of sisters far off "on Kisthene's dreadful plain": Near them their sisters three, the Gorgons, winged Als Perseus die Medusa enthauptet hatte, entsprang ihrem Körper das erste geflügelte Pferd namens Pegasos, da Medusa von Poseidon geschwängert worden war, nachdem er die Gestal… Medusa war die schönste Gorgone, wurde jedoch von der zornigen Göttin Athene verflucht. SMS Medusa was a steam corvette built for the Prussian Navy in the 1860s. In an ode written in 490 BC, Pindar already speaks of "fair-cheeked Medusa".[5]. 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. [9] In a similar manner, the corals of the Red Sea were said to have been formed of Medusa's blood spilled onto seaweed when Perseus laid down the petrifying head beside the shore during his short stay in Ethiopia where he saved and wed his future wife, the lovely princess Andromeda who was the most beautiful woman in the world at that time. Den Kampf zwischen Perseus und Phineus zeigt eindrucksvoll und erstaunlich expressionistisch Franz von Stuck. Februar 2021 um 09:25 Uhr bearbeitet. He received a mirrored shield from Athena, gold, winged sandals from Hermes, a sword from Hephaestus and Hades's helm of invisibility. The most influential depiction of Medusa in film is arguably the stop motion animation created by Ray Harryhausen for Clash of the Titans (1981). The Gazelle class was the culmination of earlier unprotected cruiser and aviso designs, combining the best aspects of both types in what became the progenitor of all future light cruisers of the Imperial fleet. Als übel gesinnte Krieger bei seiner Hochzeit auf ihn zustürzten, deren Anführer die von Perseus befreite und ihm schon vor Jahren versprochene Andromeda heiraten wollte, brauchte Perseus ihnen nur das Haupt der Gorgo zu zeigen, und sie erstarrten wie Atlas zu Stein. Medusa health: 4 bars standard attack:low Spells:See above Cost:500 gold 400 mana Training time:30 seconds Population:5 After seeing her giants being tortured by Order, she waged war, she and her Chaos Empire was pushed back to the castle and defeated. She was so hideous that the mere sight of her could cause a man to be petrified into solid stone. Das Blut der Medusa schenkte Pallas Athene dem Asklepios und dem Erichthonios. Medusa lived with her two sisters, Stheno and Euryale, in a cave surrounded by statues. Medusa was laid down in February 1862, she was launched in October 1864, and she was completed in September 1865. Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons, "Bulfinch Mythology – Age of Fable – Stories of Gods & Heroes", Frank Justus Miller translation, as revised by G. P. Goold, "The Rape of Medusa in the Temple of Athena: Aspects of Triangulation", "Endless the Medusa: a feminist reading of Medusan imagery and the myth of the hero in Eudora Welty's novels. "From Gorgon and Ceto, Sthenno, Euryale, Medusa". Medusa and her sister Crystal were born to the Inhumans Ambur and Quelin in the city of Attilan.Her parents believed in tearing down the caste system and overthrowing the Inhuman Royal Family that had ruled Attilan for centuries. Das Werk gilt als ein Höhepunkt der antiken Skulptur, da er die Medusa nach dem hellenistischen Ideal und ohne Schrecken darstellt. While her sisters were immortal man-eaters, Medusa was the only one of the three who could be killed. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). Auch Skulpturen von Camille Claudel (1864–1943) und Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) stellen Perseus und Medusa dar. In a late version of the Medusa myth, by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.794–803), Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, but when Poseidon had sex with her in "Minerva's (i.e. Stefan Schütz setzt sich in seinem Roman Medusa aus dem Jahr 1986 mit dem griechischen Sagenkreis um Medusa in surrealen Bildern auseinander. Inspired by the #metoo movement, contemporary figurative artist Judy Takács returns Medusa's beauty along with a hashtag stigmata in her portrait, #Me(dusa)too. Doch Perseus hatte Athene auf seiner Seite, die ihm einen verspiegelten Schild lieh. Sons of Medusa War Clan Iconography; the right knee plate and left pauldron are different between each clan. Mit diesen Gorgonen wurde der Heros Perseus, der Sohn des Göttervaters Zeus und der Prinzessin Danaë, konfrontiert: Polydektes, der zu Perseus’ Missfallen Danaë nachstellte, forderte Perseus auf, ihm das Haupt der Medusa zu bringen, in der Hoffnung, Perseus werde dies – wie alle, die das bisher versucht hatten – nicht überleben. Bloodwrack Medusae are horrid half-snake creatures that have served the whim and desires of Morathi , the Hag Queen of Naggaroth for many thousands of years. 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. Sie besaß als einzige der drei Gorgonen eine sterbliche Natur. Haupt der Medusa (Peter Paul Rubens und Frans Snyders), Gorgo Medusa 130 n. Chr. Elizabeth Johnston's November 2016 Atlantic essay called Medusa the original 'Nasty Woman.' ", "The Timeless Myth of Medusa, a Rape Victim Turned Into a Monster", Online version at the Perseus Digital Library, Online version at Harvard University Press, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Medusa in Myth and Literary History" – English.uiuc.edu, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Medusa&oldid=1012018573, Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2020, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 14 March 2021, at 03:52. Als die Gorgonen in den Schlaf gesunken waren, pirschte sich Perseus mit Hilfe der Tarnkappe an Medusa heran. Medusa is widely known as a monstrous creature with snakes in her hair whose gaze turns men to stone. Medusa is one of the first boss fights in God of War. Die drei Schwestern Medusa, Stheno und Euryale, auch Gorgonen genannt, waren Kinder der chthonischen Götter Phorkys und seiner Schwester Keto und wurden in der griechischen Kunst ursprünglich als von Geburt an missgestaltet angesehen. Chapter Colours. Claudels Perseus liegt die enthauptete, geflügelte Medusa zu Füßen; Perseus hält das Haupt in seiner Linken und lässt es in einen Spiegel in seiner Rechten blicken. Medusa and her family would then mourn the deaths of their fellow Inhumans, after New Arctilan was attacked by Vox. According to Ovid, in northwest Africa, Perseus flew past the Titan Atlas, who stood holding the sky aloft, and transformed him into stone when he tried to attack him. Furthermore, the venomous vipers of the Sahara, in the Argonautica 4.1515, Ovid's Metamorphoses 4.770 and Lucan's Pharsalia 9.820, were said to have grown from spilt drops of her blood. Gorgonen finden sich in Computerspielen, etwa in Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Dota 2, Castlevania und God of War sowie in Age of Mythology, Titan Quest, Assassin's Creed Odyssey und NetHack (in dessen Welt Perseus versteinert wurde, aber seinen Schild zurückgelassen hat). SYNOPSIS. Despite her mortality, Medusa was the deadliest of the three. Frühe bildliche Darstellungen der Gorgonen finden sich unter anderem in der griechischen schwarzfigurigen Vasenmalerei. Another example is the coat of arms of Dohalice village in the Czech Republic. Im Unterschied zu den übrigen abgebildeten menschlichen und mythologischen Figuren in der archaischen Vasenmalerei sind ihre Gesichter nicht im Profil, sondern in Frontalansicht dargestellt. Geschaffen um 450 v. Chr. Perseus was born to the god, Zeus, and mortal woman, Danae, making him a demi-god with great strength and intelligent ingenuity. Although that power didn't work on other Gorgons, all other enemies were turned into stone. Medusa is a tall black stick figure with an hourglass silhouette, tucked behind a green lavish cloak. Auch in der Neuverfilmung von 2010 spielt Medusa eine Rolle. Once defeated, Kratos rips off her head and is then able to use it as a weapon to turn enemies into stone. Die Figur hat auch in die Populärkultur Einzug gehalten; so bildet ein Medusenkopf das Logo der italienischen Modefirma Versace. M.E.D.U.S.A, which stands for "Military Energy Department United States of America", is a ground-based, quantum energy weapon, controlled by an artificially-intelligent computer system. Medusa was among the Inhuman Royal Family when they discovered the slain bodies of the Universal Inhuman Court and were almost killed themselves by an explosive trap. She was the second and final member of the Nymphe class.She was ordered as part of a naval expansion program to counter the Danish Navy over the disputed ownership of Schleswig and Holstein. Medusa in Classical Mythology. Probably the feminine present participle of. Auch der Krieger Chrysaor, der manchmal wie Pegasos als Pferd dargestellt wird, entsprang dem Rumpf der Medusa. Allerdings werden sie meist als bösartige, geflügelte Jungfrauen mit Reißzähnen, ehernen Klauen und einem Gürtel aus Schlangen beschrieben. Those who gazed into her eyes would turn to stone. Sometime after the war, Athena felt compelled to pursue Medusa and her Gorgons. Gaia is sometimes said to be the mother of Medusa; other sources cite the early sea deities Phorcys and Ceto as the parents of the trio of Gorgons. Medusa, by Caravaggio (1595) In Greek mythology Medusa ( Greek: Μέδουσα (Médousa), "guardian, protectress") was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as having the face of a hideous human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Medusa has been depicted in several works of art, including: Medusa remained a common theme in art in the nineteenth century, when her myth was retold in Thomas Bulfinch's Mythology. Stephen Wilk, author of Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon, questioned Medusa's enduring status among the feminist movement. MEDUSA, firing upon the wall of Batmunkh Gompa. The model was one Harryhausen's most complex and in 2020 it was voted third favourite among his many creations. "[8] In the Odyssey xi, Homer does not specifically mention the Gorgon Medusa: Lest for my daring Persephone the dread, Athene hoffte durch Perseus die Frevlerin Medusa gänzlich beseitigen zu können und erklärte ihm, wie er Medusa enthaupten könne, ohne ihr ins Angesicht blicken und deshalb zu Stein erstarren zu müssen. Stheno and Euryale, Medusa’s sisters, were immortal. Medusa was one of the three Gorgons, daughters of Phorcys and Ceto, sisters of the Graeae, Echidna, and Ladon – all dreadful and fearsome beasts. (Pythian Ode 12). Appearance Stick Empires. Author Sibylle Baumbach described Medusa as a “multimodal image of intoxication, petrifaction, and luring attractiveness," citing her seductive contemporary representation, as well as her dimensionality, as the reason for her longevity.[25]. Weitere Bedeutungen sind unter, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. "[22], Medusa's visage has since been adopted by many women as a symbol of female rage; one of the first publications to express this idea was a feminist journal called Women: A Journal of Liberation in their issue one, volume six for 1978. Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Benvenuto Cellini, installed 1554. [23], Elana Dykewomon's 1976 collection of lesbian stories and poems, They Will Know Me by My Teeth, features a drawing of a Gorgon on its cover. Role in God Of War. Larger enemies took longer to turn into stone than smaller ones. When Perseus beheaded her, Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a giant wielding a golden sword, sprang from her body.[7]. The statue depicts the Gorgon Medusa standing nude with a defiant stare on … Their genealogy is shared with other sisters, the Graeae, as in Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, which places both trinities of sisters far off "on Kisthene's dreadful plain": [24], Even in contemporary pop culture, Medusa has become largely synonymous with feminine rage. "[31], Medusa has sometimes appeared as representing notions of scientific determinism and nihilism, especially in contrast with romantic idealism. The Sons of Medusa were originally depicted in a dark green colour scheme. The story of how Medusa was killed by Perseus is one of the most thrilling stories in Greek mythology. Rating Limcuando, aboard the freighter Argentum A Medusaeis an invertebrate, alien parasitic organism that resides within the Aeldari Webway. SMS Medusa was a member of the ten-ship Gazelle class of light cruisers that were built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Its purpose was to act as a guardian for female power, keeping the book solely in the hands of women. In Greek mythology, Medusa (/mɪˈdjuːzə, -sə/; Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα "guardian, protectress")[1] also called Gorgo, was one of the three monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair. World Register of Marine Species. Athena's) temple,[6] Athena punished Medusa by transforming her beautiful hair into horrible snakes. The terror of Medusa is thus a terror of castration that is linked to the sight of something. "Medusa has since haunted Western imagination, materializing whenever male authority feels threatened by female agency," writes Johnston. Medusa and Crystal run from Agon and Rynda. Als aber Pallas Athene in einem ihrer Tempel Poseidon beim Liebesspiel mit Medusa überraschte (laut Ovid vergewaltigte er sie), war sie darüber so erzürnt, dass sie Medusa in ein Ungeheuer mit Schlangenhaaren, langen Schweinshauern, Schuppenpanzer, bronzenen Armen, glühenden Augen und heraushängender Zunge verwandelte. Pallas Athene heftete im Anschluss das Haupt der Medusa als besonderen Schutz auf ihren Schild; später wurde es als das Gorgoneion bekannt. She's beautiful and she's laughing. Two of the sisters were ugly and immortal, so he could do little to them, but Medusa was mortal and her looks were devastating. Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon[4] until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield.

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