The Medusa Reader (Culture Work (Paperback))

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Not wanting to be caught unaware, you slither on towards the source of your trouble— only to meet the wide eyes of a drenched, trembling traveler. Medusa’s head thus becomes apotropaic, literally warding off or turning away the evils it embodies” (Garber and Vickers 2).

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Throughout, its seriousness is balanced by colloquial quips (“Nothing to look at here…”, Medusa knows she should tell Perseus) and sly humour.

Misunderstood as a tragic beauty that embodied death, Medusa had been recorded in History as a Gorgon raped by Poseidon, punished by Athena, and conquered by Perseus. It’s true of not just her own luminous, astute retellings, but also of Burton’s bracing and powerful Medusa.

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Stephen Wilk, author of Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon, questioned Medusa's enduring status among the feminist movement. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Medusa is generally described as a human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair; those who gazed into her eyes [ citation needed] would turn to stone. Nancy Vickers is President of Bryn Mawr College, where she is also Professor of Italian, French, and Comparative Literature.He received a mirrored shield from Athena, sandals with gold wings from Hermes, a sword from Hephaestus and Hades's helm of invisibility. Other works include Sex and Real Estate:Why We Love Houses, Academic Instincts, Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, Shakespeare After All, and Dog Love (which is not primarily about bestiality, except for one chapter titled "Sex and the Single Dog"). 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.

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To de-naturalize conceptions of the female body as dangerous, Cixous unravels the relationship between sexual difference and fear through the Medusa. Perseus, in a variant of the same legend, flies through the air and beheads Pegasus's mother, the Gorgon Medusa; much as Marduk, a Babylonian hero, kills the she-monster Tiamat, Goddess of the Seal. BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Milne noted that "It is one of the earliest illustrations of the story to show the Gorgon not as a hideous monster but as a beautiful woman. Well, as peaceful as it can be considering the warning your serpentine companions hissed in your ear of a dilapidated boat on the shoreline. Every aspect of the myth is explored: her rape, decapitation, the snakes in her hair, her ability to turn into stone those who look upon her face, Perseus’ use of the mirror, and Athena’s use of her image on her shield.She was cursed with beauty and then cursed by Athena but apparently the gods refuse to leave her alone. She finally realizes how cursed she is when a blind princess stumbles upon her cave after running from her suitors. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. Its purpose was to act as a guardian for female power, keeping the book solely in the hands of women. As soon as they begin to speak, at the same time as they’re taught their name, they can be taught that their territory is black: because you are Africa, you are black.

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Higgins’s own volume is illustrated by the Turner prize-winning Chris Ofili, whose drawings are charming and airy, suggestive in spirit of Matisse’s pencil sketches.Medusa on the breastplate of Alexander the Great, as depicted in the Alexander Mosaic from Pompeii's House of the Faun (c. On peut leur apprendre, dès qu’elles commencent à parler, en même temps que leur nom, que leur région est noire, parce que tu es Afrique, tu es noire. 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. Her book Shakespeare After All (Pantheon, 2004) was chosen one of Newsweek's ten best nonfiction books of the year, and was awarded the 2005 Christian Gauss Book Award from Phi Beta Kappa. The Medusa story has also been interpreted in contemporary art as a classic case of rape-victim blaming, by the goddess Athena.