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Medusa inaccuracies

posted 15 years ago by jetdtw
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They clearly stated that Medusa was raped infront of Athena Parthenos despite the statue dating to around 430B.C. The myth of Medusa pre dates this event but what is more confusing is that later the documentary mentions that Perseus founded Mycenae, an event that predates Athena Parthenos by over 1100 years. And then the documentary reafirms that Perseus visits Athena Parthenos at the end. This seems an extreme mistake to make and one that cannot be blamed on continuity errors from the myth itself as the myth predates the Parthenon.

To me this error seems entirely the fault of a google friendly research team that read the myth of Medusa being raped in a temple of Athena, googled 'temple of Athena', came up with Parthenon and thought they were clever mentioning the Parthenon with doing very little real research.

This seems very amatuarish and puts me off watching some of the other episodes of subjects i know even less about as it may be completely false.

[–] bigwinwill 13 years ago

they dont follow the Myth very well to begin with. No mention of Madusa's sisters. & when the myth was changed that the gorgon sisters were born human Madusa willing gave her self to Posiden that is the reason she was punished. I'm pagan & a follower of the greek gods & read everything i could find on them & know the stories very well.

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[–] Dream_Demon 13 years ago

Also, they failed to mention that Medusa actually was't human in the first place. She was actually a minor goddess, the child of the sea gods Phorkys and Keto. Those two, btw, are the very same gods who are the parents of the Graia (Grey Sisters), Echidna (yep, Typhon's mate and the mother of monsters), and Scylla (like Medusa, she was a human-looking minor goddess before being turned into a sea monster).

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[–] cmashieldscapting 10 years ago

Just wondering, in this episode, what the heck was with the human characters having black eye makeup? Perseus and his mother each had one black eye, some other characters had two. Was this a "thing" in ancient Greece? I've certainly never seen it in any statues, paintings, or illustrations! It bugged the heck out of me!