Immediately after beheading Medusa, Pegasus, the winged horse, sprung from her neck.
He decapitated Medusa whilst she slept thanks to help from a pair of winged sandals from Hermes, a Cap of Invisibility from Hades, a bronze shield from Athena, and a powerful sword from Hephaestus. Polydectes underestimated Perseus, the son of Zeus. You see, Polydectes was in love with Perseus’ mother Danae, but Perseus did not approve of the relationship. Polydectes was the one who sent him on this mission, which he believed would be certain suicide for Perseus. In the tale of Perseus and Medusa, Perseus was sent on a seemingly impossible mission to bring back the head of Medusa. Seeking vengeance, Athena transformed Medusa’s hair into snakes so that anyone who gazed directly at her would turn to stone. His desire for Medusa was so strong that he “ravaged” her at Athena’s shrine. Ovid says Medusa was a beautiful maiden – so much so that her beauty caught the eyes of Poseiden. But Ovid’s Metamorphoses gives us some more insight into her life. Hesiod’s tale does not divulge much about Medusa, apart from the fact that she was killed at the hands of Perseus. While all three sisters were children of Phorcys and Ceto, only the Gorgon sisters Euryale and Sthenno were immortal. According to the author, Medusa lived with her two sisters, Euryale and Sthenno, at the edge of the world. The earliest known record of Medusa and the Gorgons came from Hesiod’s Theogony.
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