Where was Medusa created?

Answer 1

The nymph Medusa was having an affair with Poseidon and they arranged to meet in Athena's temle. Athena got very angry when she found that they had used her temple for this so she turned Medusa and her sisters, who had helped them, into gorgons.

Answer 2

Medusa was a priestess of Athena who allowed herself to be seduced by Poseidon within the walls of the temple she served. Athena, in her rage, turned the beautiful Medusa and her sisters into the terrifying Gorgons. Medusa was the only mortal of the three, and thus the only one who could be killed.

Answer 3

According to the oldest stories, Medusa and her sisters, Stheno and Euryale, were children of Phorcys and his sister Ceto, ancient marine deities. The three of them were born in monstrous form.

However, in the fifth century BC, artists begin to depict Medusa as terrifying, but beautiful.

In a late version of the myth, Medusa was originally a lovely mortal maiden and priestess of Athena, but when she and Poseidon lay together in the temple of the goddess, Medusa is punished by being turned into a hideous snake-haired monster, the mere sight of whom would turn men to stone.

Answer 4

Poseidon fell in "love" with her and tried to rape her. Medusa took refuge in Athena's temple, and after Poseidon was done with her, Athena was so outraged that she turned turned Medusa into a monster. Medusa's long, beautiful hair was turned into a bunch of snakes, and she had the destructive power to turn anyone to stone if they looked in her eyes.

Answer 5

No.

In one mythos, Medusa is the offspring (with her sisters) of the primaeval Greek sea gods, Phorcys and Ceto.

In another, Medusa, a beautiful priestess of Athena, lay with (or was raped by depending on version and translation) Poseidon and was cursed by Athena.

Answer 6

Medusa was created in a Temple of Athena When she was on a date with Poseidon. At this time she was a beautiful woman. But when Athena saw Medusa in her temple she turned her into the ugliest woman in the world.

Answer 7

(Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; she was slain by Perseus. As this is the case she can only have come from the realms of mans imagination.

Answer 8

In Ancient Greece