Medusa, Greek goddess

1 (solo) performer

Indoor and outdoor

Actor

4 hours

2 m wide and 1 m deep. Approximately 2.5

NL, EN

The Greek mythological figure Medusa is a goddess with a head of snakes. This Medusa entices the audience to come to her to eat a snake. Other possibilities are negotiable.

Instead of hair, poisonous snakes grew from Medusa's head. The myth tells that whoever looked at Medusa turned to stone.

In Greek mythology, Medusa was a monstrous female figure with hissing venomous snakes in her place.

The sources disagree on how Medusa became a monster. According to the Roman poet Ovid, she was once a beautiful priestess in the temple of the goddess Athens.

One day the eye of the sea god Poseidon fell on the beautiful Medusa, and he raped her. Athene was furious that the rape had taken place in her temple. But because she could not stand Poseidon, she avenged herself on Medusa and turned her into a hideous monster.

In another legend, Athene became jealous because the priestess Medusa was more beautiful than the goddess herself, which was the reason she turned Medusa into a monster.

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