According to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Medusa was transformed into a monster by the goddess Athena as punishment after being violated by Poseidon in Athena’s temple. Her beauty became her curse ...
The book has been hailed as a feminist retelling of Medusa’s myth, however, for me, she remained a victim without any agency – a mere pawn of the selfish, cruel and egotistical gods. Even her tragic ...
I REALLY wanted to love this book, but it had one glaring and major problem: It was not really telling Medusa’s story ... of her innocence by the sea god, Poseidon, and then further blamed ...