Perseus Mugs
Description: Girls Will Be Girls, Medusa with the Head of Perseus, Feminist, Women's Empowerment, Feminism
Girls Will Be Girls, Medusa with the Head of Perseus, Feminist, Women's Empowerment, Feminism Mug
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$13 $18
Description: When Zeus learned that Perseus was on his way to the Shrine of the Stygian Witches, the king of the gods knew needed to send something to aid him on his quest. He instructed Athena to send her pet owl to aid Perseus as a replacement for his ill-fated Invisibility Helmet. Athena refused, but then relied on Hephaestus to build a mechanical version of her owl. Bubo the brass-and-iron owl was then sent to Earth where he helped Perseus on his Quest to the Stygian Witches. Bubo may have been a tad clumsy but he was a reliable ally.
Description: In Greek mythology, Medusa was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Those who gazed upon her face would turn to stone. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, though the author Hyginus makes her the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto. According to Hesiod and Aeschylus, she lived and died on an island named Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. The 2nd-century BCE novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth, as part of their religion.
