Andromeda and Perseus meet and fall in love after he saves her soul from the enslavement of Thetis ' hideous son, Calibos, whereas in the myth, they simply meet as Perseus returns home from having slain Medusa.

Enraged by this, Palutena transformed Medusa into a monster, and banished her to the underworld.

After her soldiers had been turned to stone by Medusa, Palutena was defeated in battle, and imprisoned deep inside the sky temple.

Demeter was depicted in her archaic form, a Medusa type with a horse's head with snaky hair, holding a dove and a dolphin.

Medusa, one of the Gorgons, has two children with Poseidon: the winged horse Pegasus and giant Chrysaor, at the instant of her decapitation by Perseus.

She and her sister Euryale were both immortal, and the third sister, Medusa, was mortal.

In Greek mythology, she was transformed into a Gorgon because of standing with her sister Medusa, who was allegedly being raped by the sea god Poseidon in the Temple of Athena.

As a punishment, Medusa was changed into a terrible monster, along with her sisters Stheno and Euryale.

She and her sister Stheno, unlike their sister Medusa were not able to turn any creature to stone with her gaze ; but, she and Stheno were immortal, whereas Medusa was mortal.

Gorgon Medusa 200 AD with wings at the top of her head-Romano-Germanic Museum in Cologne

According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses ), a Roman poet writing in 8 AD, who was noted for accuracy regarding the Greek myths, Medusa alone had serpents in her hair, and he explained that this was due to Athena ( Roman Minerva ) cursing her.

The King, charmed by the disinterested Danaë, agreed not to marry her only if her son could travel to the foreign land of the Grey Ladies and slay the hideous Gorgon Medusa.

Perseus slew Medusa, supposedly avoiding her deadly gaze by using his shield as a mirror.

Perseus professed that he did slay the Gorgon named Medusa ( the only Gorgon who was mortal ), and as proof, he revealed her severed head.

Her name means " Gorgon Slayer ", a tribute to her father who killed Medusa, the mortal Gorgon.

The statue of Athena is upright, with a tunic reaching to the feet, and on her breast the head of Medusa is worked in ivory.

That same year, she released the Showtime television movie Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful, a satire about Madonna and her backstage documentary, Truth or Dare.

In 1975, Cixous published her most influential article " Le rire de la méduse " (" The Laugh of the Medusa "), translated and released in English in 1976.

In keeping with the theme of unity between classical art and pop culture, the " sexual personae " of her title include the female vampire ( Medusa, Lauren Bacall ); the pythoness ( the Delphic Oracle, Gracie Allen ); the beautiful boy ( Hadrian's Antinous, Dorian Gray ); the epicene man of beauty ( Lord Byron, Elvis Presley ); and the male heroine ( Baudelaire, Woody Allen ).

She followed this up in 1995 with her second album, Medusa, an album of cover versions.

If not for the lucky intervention of The Torch, who is away when the Frightful Four invade the Baxter Building, but later receives a signal for help from Alicia when she finds the fallen Sue Storm lying unconscious, Medusa and her comrades would have certainly succeeded in finishing off the Invisible Girl, Mr. Fantastic, the Thing and his girl.

Medusa, along with her evil comrades, Wizard and Trapster, then abduct their helpless captive into the sky.

He learns that they were comrades in a CIA paramilitary unit called Medusa during the Vietnam war, and that his codename was Delta.

When Torch frees Sue, Medusa again initially traps Sue with her hair, but then Sue turns the tables and captures Medusa in a force field.

Together with the Wizard, Sandman, and Medusa as the Frightful Four again, they once again battled the Fantastic Four.

When Ronan is wounded in battle with Vulcan's forces, Medusa states to the Shi ' ar that they had made a big mistake and vows that they will pay for this.

Medusa proves herself a capable fighter, helping to keep the battle at a stalemate.

The character is imprisoned by brother Maximus ( who has also swapped their bodies ) but later freed by the Royal Family and allies the Avengers, appears in a one-shot title detailing several of Marvel's continuity mistakes, is married to cousin Medusa ( after an interruption-a battle between a Kree and Skrull soldier ), and appears in a back-up tale in the title Marvel Fanfare.

This leads to a battle with the Fantastic Four, who rescued Medusa from the supervillain team the Frightful Four.

The Wizard and Pete would eventually team with the criminal Sandman and the Inhuman Medusa as the Frightful Four to battle the Fantastic Four.

The series offered a battle of the sexes / role reversal scenario in which two male domestics escape from the female-ruled planet Medusa, land on Earth and are pursued by the Medusan security forces.

Having accomplished his mission, Stone prepares to return to Earth but the mining operation is finally attacked by a Pyrite " Medusa "- class battle cruiser.

* Hydro-Man appears in the Fantastic Four episode " And the Wind Cries Medusa ", voiced by Brad Garrett.

* Crystal, along with the other Inhumans, made their animated debut in the 1978 Fantastic Four animated series in the episode " Medusa and the Inhumans ".

Medusa first appeared in Fantastic Four # 36 ( 1965 ), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Medusa made her first appearance in Fantastic Four # 36 as Madam Medusa.

In Fantastic Four # 42, we begin by seeing Sue still helplessly imprisoned in the giant plastic bag Medusa had Trapster create.

In Fantastic Four # 43, she attacks Medusa with a series of force spheres, but then Medusa counters and wraps her up in her mighty hair.

It was some time before the disastrous effects of worldly pollution on the Inhumans was known, but eventually Medusa regained her senses and joined forces with the Fantastic Four.

Medusa has been known to join the Fantastic Four as a team member for brief periods of time.

Through her relations with the Fantastic Four, Medusa and Black Bolt have sought to achieve an understanding and peace between the races of Earth and Attilan.

Medusa is shown fighting a Skrull that not only possesses her powers, but also possesses the powers of Mister Fantastic.

A version of Medusa appears in the Ultimate Marvel series, first appearing in the Ultimate Fantastic Four issue Annual 1: Inhuman.

Unlike other versions, Ultimate Medusa is against all associations with the Fantastic Four and believes that the two races of Inhumans and humans can never co-mingle in peace.

* Medusa appears alongside the rest of the Inhumans and later the Frightful Four in an episode of the 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon.

* Medusa appears in four episodes of the ' 90's Fantastic Four TV series voiced by Iona Morris.

He teams with the Wizard, Paste Pot Pete and Medusa to form the Frightful Four to combat the Fantastic Four, which attacked during Reed and Sue's engagement party.

The Frightful Four first appeared in Fantastic Four # 36, consisting of the Wizard, the Sandman, Paste-Pot Pete ( the latter two who freed the Wizard ), and Medusa ( who had amnesia at the time ).

This led him into conflict with the Fantastic Four, the first humans he met, who were harboring Medusa after rescuing her from the villainous Frightful Four.

* Karnak alongside the other Inhumans appeared in the Fantastic Four episode " Medusa and the Inhumans ", voiced by John Stephenson.

The character reappears in a story focusing on his cousin Medusa, drives off the Hulk after the monster defeats the entire Inhuman Royal Family ( Medusa, Gorgon, Karnak, Triton, and Crystal ), and with the Fantastic Four battles his brother Maximus and his own group of rogue Inhumans.

* Black Bolt alongside the other Inhumans appeared in the Fantastic Four episode " Medusa and the Inhumans ".