Also, many items related to Perseus, including his shield and armor in Multiplayer, have images of Medusa's head on them, indicating he is connected to her in the God of War myth in some way. The fact that most of Ares' army was composed by undead warriors supports the second hypothesis. Since Stheno appears in God of War: Ascension, this would mean that Medusa was the second queen of the Gorgons, and not the first.Īnother interesting fact is that Medusa's relation with the hero Perseus in the series is never stated explicitly: it is never told if she was simply called by Ares to attack Athens (without having met Perseus or been killed by him before) or if she was actually killed by Perseus once, like in the original myth, and then resurrected by Ares to help in the siege. Medusa's existence had come to an end, leaving her sisters, Euryale and Stheno, to lead the race of Gorgons until Euryale's death at the hands of Kratos in God of War II. Pleased, Aphrodite granted the power of Medusa's Gaze to Kratos, who in turn used it to destroy a group of Minotaurs. The hissing Gorgon arose from the shadows and fought with Kratos, who eventually tore her head from her body with his bare hands. As Kratos progressed through the ruins of the city, he met Aphrodite, who commanded him to slay Medusa by decapitating her. She and her race are among the armies of Ares, as it is known that Gorgons hated Athena. Ovid's depiction of Medusa reflects a society where women were valued as objects in a male-dominated world, as Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Athena as just and well-deserved.ĭuring the siege of Athens, she was given the title of Queen of the Gorgons. In the eyes of Athena, it was Medusa who deserved to be punished. As a powerful male god, this would be expected of him. While Athena was furious that Poseidon had taken favor of Medusa in her temple, she was not angry with the God of the Ocean himself. Enraged that her temple had been defiled in such a manner, she cursed Medusa, painfully transforming the once beautiful maiden into a grotesque monster, whose head was christened with venomous serpents, and a face so hideous that one glance would turn anyone who saw her to stone. Athena would appear before them, catching them in the act. Poseidon, so enamored by Medusa, approached her in the sanctuary of the temple and raped her. Medusa was greatly admired by many men, both mortal and god. Roman poet Ovid depicted Medusa in his poem Metamorphoses as an exceptionally beautiful maiden and a priestess of Athena's Temple.
The Gorgon sisters lived in a temple on an island at the edge of the world (or Underworld), Medusa was the only one who was slain by the hero Perseus. The three Gorgon sisters- Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale-were children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys (or Phorkys) and his sister Ceto (or Keto), chthonic and Phorkys and Ceto are two of children of Pontus and Gaia monsters from an archaic world.
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