Hello and thank you for Listening to Macabre for mortals.
My references this week were :-
1.
Probably the feminine present
participle of medein, "to protect, rule over" (American Heritage Dictionary; compare Medon, Medea, Diomedes, etc.). If not, it is from the same root, and is formed
after the participle. OED 2001 revision, s.v.; medein in LSJ.
2. ^ as in Hesiod, Theogony 270, and Pseudo-Apollodorus Bibliotheke,
1.10.
3. ^ "From Gorgon and Ceto, Sthenno, Euryale, Medusa".
4. ^ Bullfinch, Thomas. "Bulfinch
Mythology – Age of Fable – Stories of Gods & Heroes". Retrieved 2007-09-07. ...and
turning his face away, he held up the Gorgon's head. Atlas, with all his bulk,
was changed into stone.
5. ^ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 793–799; Edited and Translated by Alan H. Sommerstein.
"Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound", (Loeb
Classical Library) Harvard University Press, 2008, p. 531.
6. ^ (Pythian Ode 12). Noted by Marjorie J. Milne in discussing
a red-figured vase in
the style of Polygnotos,
ca. 450–30 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. Art in this respect lagged behind poetry." (Marjorie J. Milne,
"Perseus and Medusa on an Attic Vase" The Metropolitan Museum of
Art Bulletin New Series, 4.5 (January 1946, pp. 126–130)
126.p.)
7. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.798:
"the Sovereign of the Sea attained her love in chaste Minerva's
temple" (Brookes
More translation) or
"in Minerva’s temple Neptune, lord of the Ocean, ravished her" (Frank
Justus Miller translation, as revised by G. P. Goold) Whether Ovid means that Medusa was a willing participant is
unclear. Hard, p. 61, says she was "seduced"; Grimal, s.v. Gorgons, p.
174, says she was "ravished"; Tripp, s.v. Medusa, p. 363 says she
"yielded". In the original Latin text, Ovid uses the verb
"vitiasse" which is translated to mean "violate" or
"corrupt" line 798.
Thank you for joining me for this episode of Macabre for
Mortals. I hope this has given you some insight into Medusa and the myth and
how it related to current times. Next time I will be covering a true crime
subject – the case of the missing Heiress.
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