Group E: Elise Filippidis, Peter Carey, Clara Heffernan, Tilly Onyett by Gloria Visintini https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj Contemporary Myth-Making: Group Project en-us 2018-02-13 12:05:13 UTC 2024-12-18 21:32:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/294295219 2018-10-18 12:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/294295219 ch17256 https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/296890409 Tilly: Medusa leaving house, media everywhere, shouting/cameras flashing/reporters questions, etc.

Pete: trial, Poseidon giving his testimony (career ruined, accusing Medusa of lying, etc.)

Elise: Athena defending Poseidon on the stand, flashbacks to her abusing Medusa, followed by questions from prosecution

Clara: Medusa recounting the rape, flashbacks interspersed

Tilly: Succession of men giving testimonies, denying accusations
End with guilty verdict from the jury]]> 2018-10-25 12:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/296890409 Ovid, Metamorphoses 4 ch17256 https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/299356015 So did he speak, and truly told besides the perils of his journey, arduous and long—He told of seas and lands that far beneath him he had seen, and of the stars that he had touched while on his waving wings. And yet, before they were aware, the tale was ended; he was silent. Then rejoined a noble with enquiry why alone of those three sisters, snakes were interspersed in dread Medusa's locks. And he replied:—“Because, O Stranger, it is your desire to learn what worthy is for me to tell, hear ye the cause: Beyond all others she was famed for beauty, and the envious hope of many suitors. Words would fail to tell the glory of her hair, most wonderful of all her charms—A friend declared to me he saw its lovely splendour. Fame declares the Sovereign of the Sea attained her love in chaste Minerva's temple. While enraged she turned her head away and held her shield before her eyes. To punish that great crime minerva changed the Gorgon's splendid hair to serpents horrible. And now to strike her foes with fear, she wears upon her breast those awful vipers—creatures of her rage.]]> 2018-11-01 13:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/299356015 Great Perseus then: With me you shall prevail, Worth the relation, to relate a tale. Medusa once had charms; to gain her love A rival crowd of envious lovers strove. They, who have seen her, own, they ne'er did trace More moving features in a sweeter face. Yet above all, her length of hair, they own, In golden ringlets wav'd, and graceful shone. Her Neptune saw, and with such beauties fir'd, Resolv'd to compass, what his soul desir'd. In chaste Minerva's fane, he, lustful, stay'd, And seiz'd, and rifled the young, blushing maid. The bashful Goddess turn'd her eyes away, Nor durst such bold impurity survey; But on the ravish'd virgin vengeance takes, Her shining hair is chang'd to hissing snakes. These in her Aegis Pallas joys to bear, The hissing snakes her foes more sure ensnare, Than they did lovers once, when shining hair. to17017 https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/302866479 2018-11-10 14:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/302866479 https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/304783873 2018-11-15 13:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/304783873 300 words https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/307026328 - familiar Ovid myth but subverted perspective and different focus (origins myth rather than the Perseus story)
- iconic image of medusa
- inspiration in modern pop culture (Percy Jackson) = always the villain
- feminist perspectives; myths don't cover her rape, only her vilification, MeToo movement era (court case, rape is never mentioned most of the time)
- serious rather comedy, rape scene needed to be serious ]]> 2018-11-22 13:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/307026328 pc17617 https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/313585361 2018-12-11 19:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/313585361 https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/313652985 2018-12-11 22:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/313652985 to17017 https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/313667257 2018-12-11 23:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mlxgv/z2fxrxcj3azj/wish/313667257