Medusa Mythology: Monster, Victim & Feminist Icon. The myth ancient Greece got wrong
She has turned heads for nearly three thousand years. A face so terrible that a single glance would freeze you in stone. A woman so beautiful that a god could not leave her alone. Medusa mythology is not a simple story of a monster slain by a hero, it is one of the oldest, most layered, and most misread tales in the Western canon.