Originally, Medusa was said to be a beautiful mortal woman, unlike her immortal Gorgon sisters, Stheno and Euryale. According to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Medusa was transformed into a monster by ...

So it is that Perseus finds himself agreeing to find and defeat the Gorgon - a monster called Medusa ... determined by talking to the Three Grey Sisters - so the two of them go off to find ...

The book has been hailed as a feminist retelling of Medusa’s myth, however, for me, she remained a victim without any agency – a mere pawn of the selfish, cruel and egotistical gods. Even her tragic ...