Folklore Forensics
Medusa’s Persecution: Greek Mythology's Most Misunderstood Monster
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What if Greek mythology remembered Medusa as a monster because it forgot what happened to her first?
You've heard the story. Now hear the case.
Medusa is one of the most recognizable figures in Greek mythology: a monster with snakes for hair whose gaze could turn men to stone. But the oldest versions of the myth tell a very different story.
Before she became a monster, Medusa was a priestess…