Hera

In Unit 10 under the Instructor’s Emphasis Medusa, American culture generally imagines Medusa being born as snake headed monster whom Perseus destroyed with the assistance from the gods. Another theory says that Medusa was once a mortal woman that Poseidon raped in the temple of Athena. Athena made Medusa suffer because of her jealousy by … Read more

When studying modern mythos in terms of comic books, I kept myself in the lense of female superheros being the goddesses of today. I use the comic books as the goddesses’ mythic narrative, but it also moves beyond written and into a visual medium which seems to be a very intriguing thing to the culture … Read more