Gorgons - The Dazzling Creatures of Greek Mythology
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- In Greek mythology, the Gorgons were creatures with snake hair. The most famous, Medusa, was cursed by Athena and was defeated by the hero Perseus.
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The Gorgons are both the most terrifying and most tragic creatures in Greek Mythology.
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They're FAR from tragic in Greek Mythology
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Gorgons may not have been featured in many stories. But over the years they have appeared in numerous video games,comics,and movies.
Medusa: why are you not turning to stone
Me: lady im already rock hard
Medusa:Is that so?[starts undressing herself]
ROCK AND STONE TO THE CORE!!!
0:21 Man someone was really having fun with after effects.
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Aix was the first Gorgan and the one I find to be the most interesting. It was a goat with both genders that was slain by Zeus during the battle against the Titans. Zeus places its head on his shield predating Athena’s actions with Medusa’s head.
Goes to see just how ancient this tradition of placing powerful creatures, monster even dare I say - goes back.
The unnecessary jiggle physics 😂
Glad somebody noticed it too
The Gorgons have always been fascinating to me.
I always wondered how they were able to know that Medusa's head will still turn people to stone after being beheaded?
What's the mythic answer? I don't know. But the historical answer is probably the story arose to explain the symbol of the Gorgon's head. You see, the image of a Gorgon head was used as a protective symbol by the Ancient Greeks. Basically it was believed that evil spirits would look at the head and flee. So the beheading of Medusa probably gives a partial explanation for the symbol since the symbol is just a head
The magic is in the eyes. As long as the eyes are open, they have the power to petrify any living creature.
Gorgons never had snake tails until 1981 Clash of the Titans. Since then it's been a common feature within the 2010 remake and God of War games. Before then, they had legs 🦵.
I've always thought Medusa's sisters were born as gorgans but she was immune to their gaze, and only until her atk by Poseidon was she made just like them.
@sifilore9462.
You obviously don't know very much, but you do like to make up your own stories.
The oldest depictions and written works about Medusa and the gorgons is that they were born as monsters.
Medusa was a gorgon since birth in Greek Mythology
@@redblade8160Clearly so do you
Contrary to how they're portrayed in Clash of the Titans and God of War, gorgons DO NOT have serpentine lower halves. Echidna does, but she's a completely different character
well not that different, she is part of the family, and if i remember rigth Ceto ( the mother of the gorgons also have snake tail) as you point not the same character, but is on the family
@@rafaelsantos-nl9jdThere’s also some accounts where Echidna is the daughter of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe. So in this case she’s Medusa’s granddaughter. And there’s even other versions where she’s the offspring of Gaia and Tartarus just like her husband, Typhon. Yeah Echidna’s origins are extremely vague and just all over the place.
Ovid always wrote the most perverted versions and yet his are still the most famous ones. Not to mention people still believe his versions are the original Greek ones.
It is like Heracles or Hercules situations which kinda drives me crazy.
Why was Medusa punished? She was the victim there and didn’t want Posieden.
@@ottooctavius9552 Ask the Romans
Poseidon: I like ya, and I want ya- we can do this the easy way or the hard way.
Medusa: HELP ME !
Poseidon: oh, I see you're choosing the hard way
It’s sad how we’ve villainized Medusa over the years, but she was really a victim of the deities of her mythology.(Poseidon and Athena)
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@@summertime6785it just shows that the gods were more trouble than helpful to mortals
@@summertime6785 Medusa was a monster since birth in Greek Mythology, this SA version is from the ROMAN writer Ovid
Athena is pretty much the bad guy in this.
Tell me more about Medusa’s sisters please
0:54 the saddest moment ever
Agreed.
This NEVER happened in Greek Mythology, it's a ROMAN MYTH from the writer Ovid
@@jessnalulila5552 it is still a part of the Greek mythology now, regardless of its origin it did become cemented into Greek mythology. the problem is the similarities between the Greek and Roman mythology have become hard to differentiate, for many, these days.
The one where Athena turned her into this monster because she got assaulted is just plain sad. And made me not like this goddess all that much
So, I’ve heard a version of this that the girl actually asked Athena to protect her from being violated again, so Athena made her a gorgon so she could never be violated again. Becoming a gorgon was her empowerment, not her punishment. The same source said a gorgon’s head was used to mark safe places for women. The version described in the video is the ‘men’s’ version of the tale.
Glad I'm Christian. I rather be loyal to a god who can forgive than a god who think this is a board game.
@@dragonrider1736same Christ is King
Gorgons even though they have snakes for hair they're still hot with or without snake tails
The gorgons never had a snake tail, this was made up by the movie Clash of Titans
Seems that the Gorgon image worked.
It protected Alexander even in the most tough battles.
Ovid's version is terrible.
What’s kind of funny about his version is that he wrote like 3 lines about her, total, so he wasn’t even trying to tell ‘her story’.
True, I love Athena man It's sad that Ovid wrote this version
I always thought it was the height of idiocy to blame and/or punish someone who was victimized by another person and the fact that it occurs so much in greek mythology has cause a growing hatred for it despite my consistant interest. I ended up branching out from greek mythology but I can't stand the majority of the pantheon of greek gods in mythology.
I love the Greek Gods
@@WildMen4444 I don't but there are some that I do like, such as Nix.
mm interesting and great history and......mmm wow that's awesome i love that my dear brother father.
did not know she had 2 sisters till i watched this.
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They were not evil beings in those days , Gorgons are always depicted wrong they were beautiful women and people mistreats them. In books from what I read.
Greek mythology is decidedly full of women being punished for something men did to them.
The scary and beautiful women of hisorty
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0:54 Saddest moment, the main reason why I loved it when Kratos killed Athena in God of War 2. 😈
Funny that I just read the fan comics of the Gorgon Sisters meets a Roman soldier in Facebook. 😆😂
🌟Love hearing about the Gorgons🐍
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Athena isn’t a girls girl at all. Victim blaming. Another version says she did it to protect her from men
This "protection" version *doesn't exist* in Greek Mythology
@@jessnalulila5552 wow didn’t know. Thanks. Now my beef with Athena is restored
More poisiden graping....and very poor judgment by Athena.
She turned me to stone..
Who has a more tragic story, Lamia or Medusa? They are tragic snake women of Greek Mythology
It's Lamia, Medusa was a gorgon since birth in Greek Mythology
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 46 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"It is affirmed by some that Medousa was beheaded because of Athena, for they say the Gorgon had been willing to be compared with Athena in beauty."
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Medusa could not be a priestess of Athena, since she descends from the Titans. What is the point of a Titanide serving the deity of a minor pantheon?
There's no such prohibition.
@@WildMen4444 Of course, there was no such prohibition, but there was also no need to serve the gods who forcibly “replaced” the Titanides in all spheres of influence like a “Helios - Apollo”, “Selene - Artemis” etc.
yes and no.
1- It's silly but if we go by the technicality, Medusa's parents are not titans, the are half-siblings of the titans, ( different father) ( but yeah you are right in short Medusa and her Sisters are basically second generation titans like Prometheus).
2- is not really a problems, you have some second generation titans that worked for the olympians, Prometheus and his brother for example created the humans and animals while working for the olympians if memory dont fail me.
3-Medusa never served Athena in the original vesion fo the Tale, you can even say they are rivals or enemies, she only serve Athena in the Roman version, that probable changed Medusa from a powerful and deadly woman to a weak defenseles priest, to make both Poseidon and Athena look even worst than they are in the OG
@@rafaelsantos-nl9jd Friendship with the Olympians did not end well for any of the Iapetides.
@@rafaelsantos-nl9jd fun fact: Ovid never described Medusa as a Priestess, that's just a modern headcanon
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. Minerva [Athena] still, to strike her foes with dread, upon her breastplate wears the snakes she made."
how they grab her head without being stone lol and not look at it
Perseus used the reflection on his shield
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In other legends, the two sisters were immortal and covered in metal scales, claws, and wings, that crashed like cymbals when they flapped. The death of Medusa also gave birth to Pegasus and a legendary Greek warrior
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The Gorgon is originally known by the Hindus as a Naga all the Greeks did was appropriate demons from the Hindu Pantheon and give them new names in their new Greek pantheon. Later this same demoness was adopted by the Scottish and she came to be known to them as the Morrigan
I don’t like the one with Poseidon why was she punished for something she didn’t even want to happen to her. That’s like blaming the victim
So...athena was an asshole. blamed and punished the victim, then helped in killing said victim. gotcha
Interesting
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Just like in the movie of Clash of the Titans, Perseus killed Medusa & in the game of God Of War Kratos killed Medusa. Its the only way to killed Gorgons beheaded....
And in God of War 2, Kratos similarly killed Eurayle, who was depicted as being even more hideous and obese.
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Holy mythological cats and be careful quit when they're a head.
I want to hug them
Lets be honest the real monster of this story is Athena. She was the one of the most pettiest goddess ever
They were monsters since birth in Greek Mythology
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 10 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Phorkys (Phorcys) and Keto (Ceto) had [offspring] the Phorkides (Phorcides) and the Gorgones (Gorgons)."
Stasinus of Cyprus or Hegesias of Aegina, Cypria Fragment 21 (from Herodian, One Peculiar Diction) (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th or C6th B.C.) :
"By him [Phorkys (Phorcys)] she [Keto (Ceto)] conceived and bare the Gorgones (Gorgons), fearful monsters who lived in Sarpedon, a rocky island in deep-eddying Okeanos (Oceanus)."
This SA version is from the ROMAN writer Ovid
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Talk about the injustice
They were monsters since birth in Greek Mythology, this video is using a ROMAN MYTH from the writer Ovid as source
Stasinus of Cyprus or Hegesias of Aegina, Cypria Fragment 21 (from Herodian, One Peculiar Diction) (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th or C6th B.C.) :
"By him [Phorkys (Phorcys)] she [Keto (Ceto)] conceived and bare the Gorgones (Gorgons), fearful monsters who lived in Sarpedon, a rocky island in deep-eddying Okeanos (Oceanus)."
Ovid story is better.
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I don't see how
I’m ngl I would be tearing that gorgussy tf up.
You better hope you run into a Gorgon with a regular woman's face and not the more common monster face. I mean, unless the former is your kink. You do you.