CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Synoecism, Scholia, Pirithous
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Enigmatic: hard to pin down the original source. Because the legends that surround have been tangled with folk tales. Acrisius king argos: he goes to an oracle: acrisius descended from the dainaids (50 daughters of danaus) He changes his form into showers of gold. The gorgans are monsters, they are immortal and only one is mortal (medusa) Wings, wide eyes that turn into stone, No body turns out alive with the account of these ladies. Perseus is equipped with magic weapons given by athena and hermes. He gets winged sandals, a cap of visibility, a sword, a shield, and a special gorgans head carrying pouch. He keeps her head, he uses the shield to look at her reflection. It turns out, at the moment he does this, medusa is pregnant by poseidon. Two creatures are born from her neck, 1 (pegeuses) winged horse, 2 (chrysaor)hero of golden sword. Medusa was raped by poesidon, in athens temple.
