![]() ![]() To protect his mother from a forced marriage, he needs to get the head of a Gorgon.Īlthough the novel structures itself around the myth of Perseus and Medusa, it also explores the different parts of Greek mythology and the gods. She is content to live out her days secluded, but her story becomes entangled with a young Perseus. Haynes keeps the story close to Medusa’s Ovid myth in this retelling, as the mortal gorgon sister of Sthenno and Euryale catches the eye of Poseidon, the god of the sea.Īfter he does something unspeakable to her in Athene’s temple, an angry Athene punishes Medusa by turning her into a monster. ![]() She shines a new light on the plight of Medusa, and raises questions about what makes a monster and what makes a hero. Enraged by this, Athene turned Medusa into the snake-haired figure we know today.Ĭlassicist and comedian Natalie Haynes covers both stories in her fourth novel, Stone Blind. In many parts of the mythology, Medusa was a beautiful maiden who caught the eye of Poseidon, the god of the sea, who seduced her in Athene’s temple. ![]() In the original myth, Perseus’s grandfather forced Perseus out of his kingdom and King Polydectus tasked him to kill and bring back the head of Medusa.īefore Medusa was Perseus’s trophy, she was the mortal Gorgon sister of Sthenno and Euryale. The classic Greek story of Perseus gets given a fresh perspective in Stone Blind, looking on the perspective of the legendary Gorgon Medusa. ![]()
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