E6: MEDUSA PART 2

Raven goes over the visuals and writings on Medusa from the common era, including what her story would look like today.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses violence against women, rape, victim blaming, suicide, and abortion.

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

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

Fig. 6: Rondanini. Rondanini Medusa. Roman Imperial, 1st-2nd century CE. Roman copy of a Greek original. Marble. Glyptothek, Munich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa_Rondanini#/media/File:Rondanini_Medusa_Glyptothek_Munich_252_n1.jpg

Fig. 7: Wall painting fragment with Gorgon mask. Roman Imperial, 14-68 CE. Fresco. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/245838?sortBy=Date&ft=Medusa&offset=40&rpp=40&pos=76

Fig. 8: Bronze ornament from a chariot pole. Roman Imperial, 1st-2nd century CE. Bronze. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/250666?sortBy=Date&ft=Medusa&offset=40&rpp=40&pos=70

Fig. 9: Merisi, Caravaggio, Medusa, oil on canvas, 1595-1598, Medici family collections, Florence, https://g.co/arts/2QS1Kgrcrw4ZmHhJ9.

Fig. 10: Rubens, Peter Paul. Head of Medusa. 1617-1618. Oil on canvas. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthistorisches_Museum