Did you REALLY read the work of Ovid? 🤨 Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 790 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Her [Medousa's] beauty was far-famed, the jealous hope of many a suitor, and of all her charms her hair was loveliest; so I was told by one who claimed to have seen her. She, it's said, was violated in Minerva's [Athena's] shrine by the Lord of the Sea [Poseidon]. Jupiter's [Zeus'] daughter [Athena] turned away and covered with her shield her virgin's eyes. And then for fitting punishment transformed the Gorgo's lovely hair to loathsome snakes. He NEVER described Medusa as a Priestess Why put "Greek Mythology" in your title just to use the roman myth?
Well, first, I agree that modern interpretation mentions Medusa as a priestess, but nevertheless she turned to Athena for help, or Minerva if you want to refer to her with the Roman name. So, unless you can tell me why she wasn't a priestess, i don't understand why so much ruckus. Is Medusa referred to have another profession? And as for the Greek or Roman mythology, you seriously ask me that question? The myth of Medusa has a Greek origin, and from ancient to modern authors, NO ONE would refer to any myth of Medusa as Roman mythology, even if it's written by a Roman author.
So, for example, if I use a Chinese myth for a manuscript of my own, and talk specifically about the main persona of the myth, but give a slightly different story, that makes it my own myth, and it then belongs to the mythology of my place of birth and not of China?
@@mythbookstories she wasn't a Priestess because he didn't call her that? Isn't a complex conclusion 🤷♀️ I don't understand the "no one" part. If a roman writer was the only source for a myth and he used the roman deities names wouldn't make sense to consider that Roman Mythology?
@@jessnalulila5552 Medusa was a roman deity? And Ovid is the only source? What about Hesiod and Aeschylus? Isn't Ovid a later source? How is medusa NOT Greek Mythology, that is what I can not understand.
@@mythbookstories let me try to explain: "roman deities" was meant to reference that he wrote Minerva instead of Athena, for Hesiod Medusa was like a gorgon who slept with Poseidon in a field of flowers And after looking at Aeschylus text he described Medusa and her sisters as having wings and snakes for hair When I said "the only source" it was about the fact Ovid was the one behind the abuse/transformation version Medusa IS part of Greek Mythology but according to the two others has a very different origin from Ovid It looks like we're having a lot of misunderstanding
What was the source for this video? Honest question because by all accounts Medusa WASN'T described as a Priestess in Greek Mythology
According manuscripts of Ovidius (Ovid)
So it wasn't her fault...
Well, yes, many would say that Athena was just jealous and was looking for a reason to punish her
Did you REALLY read the work of Ovid? 🤨
Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 790 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Her [Medousa's] beauty was far-famed, the jealous hope of many a suitor, and of all her charms her hair was loveliest; so I was told by one who claimed to have seen her. She, it's said, was violated in Minerva's [Athena's] shrine by the Lord of the Sea [Poseidon]. Jupiter's [Zeus'] daughter [Athena] turned away and covered with her shield her virgin's eyes. And then for fitting punishment transformed the Gorgo's lovely hair to loathsome snakes.
He NEVER described Medusa as a Priestess
Why put "Greek Mythology" in your title just to use the roman myth?
Well, first, I agree that modern interpretation mentions Medusa as a priestess, but nevertheless she turned to Athena for help, or Minerva if you want to refer to her with the Roman name. So, unless you can tell me why she wasn't a priestess, i don't understand why so much ruckus. Is Medusa referred to have another profession?
And as for the Greek or Roman mythology, you seriously ask me that question? The myth of Medusa has a Greek origin, and from ancient to modern authors, NO ONE would refer to any myth of Medusa as Roman mythology, even if it's written by a Roman author.
So, for example, if I use a Chinese myth for a manuscript of my own, and talk specifically about the main persona of the myth, but give a slightly different story, that makes it my own myth, and it then belongs to the mythology of my place of birth and not of China?
@@mythbookstories she wasn't a Priestess because he didn't call her that? Isn't a complex conclusion 🤷♀️
I don't understand the "no one" part. If a roman writer was the only source for a myth and he used the roman deities names wouldn't make sense to consider that Roman Mythology?
@@jessnalulila5552 Medusa was a roman deity? And Ovid is the only source? What about Hesiod and Aeschylus? Isn't Ovid a later source? How is medusa NOT Greek Mythology, that is what I can not understand.
@@mythbookstories let me try to explain: "roman deities" was meant to reference that he wrote Minerva instead of Athena, for Hesiod Medusa was like a gorgon who slept with Poseidon in a field of flowers
And after looking at Aeschylus text he described Medusa and her sisters as having wings and snakes for hair
When I said "the only source" it was about the fact Ovid was the one behind the abuse/transformation version
Medusa IS part of Greek Mythology but according to the two others has a very different origin from Ovid
It looks like we're having a lot of misunderstanding