KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -The snake-haired Medusa does not become widespread until the first century B.C. The Roman author Ovid describes the mortal Medusa as a beautiful maiden seduced by Poseidon in a temple of Athena. Such a sacrilege attracted the goddess’ wrath, and she punished Medusa by turning her hair to snakes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Greek. Homer: Perseus and his birth from an affair between Zeus and Danae is mentioned in the Iliad (14.319–20). Hesiod: The Gorgons and Perseus’ battle with Medusa are mentioned in the Theogony, a seventh-century BCE epic (lines 270–81). Pindar: Perseus’ myth and his slaying of Medusa were told in Pythian Ode 12.