So, to spite his foe, he decided to rape her priestess right inside her temple – humiliating the priestess, and breaking the vow of celibacy she had taken in service to Athena. He also happened to be an enemy of Athena. A woman of loose morals had sex in a temple and got punished for it, until a brave male hero chopped off her head and saved the day. Or at least that’s the version men have written down for centuries. Eventually, Medusa was beheaded whilst pregnant (carrying Poseidon’s offspring, Pegasus and Chrysaor) by Perseus, who took her head and continued to use it as a weapon, turning enemies who looked upon it to stone - until he eventually returned the head to Athena, and went on to marry the princess Andromeda, who just so happened to be the most beautiful woman in the world at that time. Athena punished Medusa by turning her hair into fearful snakes, capable of turning onlookers to stone. With snakes for hair-hatred of mortal man-Īccording to Ovid’s telling of the myth, Medusa was a beautiful maiden, a Priestess of Athena, who had sex with Poseidon in Athena’s temple. Near them their sisters three, the Gorgons, winged Medusa, monoprint and collage, sketchbook page, 2021
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