E5: MEDUSA PART 1

Raven and B sit down to talk about their idol, Medusa. This solid two parter starts out with Medusa's mysterious origins in both literature and visual arts.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses violence against women, rape, victim blaming, and violation after death.

Sources

Glennon, Madeleine. “Medusa in Ancient Greek Art.” Metmuseum.org. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. Accessed June 2022. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/medu/hd_medu.htm

Karoglou, Kiki. “Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 75, no. 3 (2018). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Dangerous_Beauty_Medusa_in_Classical_Art_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_Bulletin_v75_no_3

The Medusa Reader. Edited by Marjorie Garber and Nancy J. Vickers. New York: Routledge, 2003. https://www.routledge.com/The-Medusa-Reader/Garber-Vickers/p/book/9780415900997

Stansbury-O’Donnel, Mark D. A History of Greek Art. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+History+of+Greek+Art-p-9781444350159

Images

Fig. 1: Ergotimos and Kleitias. Terracotta stand. Archaic. Ca. 570 BCE. Terracotta; black-figure. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253342

Additional Imagery: C Painter, Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup). Archaic. Ca. 575 BCE. Terracotta; black-figure. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/246931?pos=3

Fig. 2: Polygnotos. Terracotta pelike (jar). Archaic. Ca. 450-440 BCE. Terracotta; red-figure. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254523

Fig. 3: Unknown. Terracotta antefix (roof tile). Archaic. Ca. 500 BCE. Terracotta. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254799

Fig. 4: Unknown. Antefix, head of Medusa. Classical. 4th century BCE. Terracotta. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248338

Fig. 5: Unknown. Terracotta two-handled vase. Early Hellenistic. Late 4th–early 3rd century BCE. Terracotta. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247408