And again, Kito bear to forecast the fair-cheeked Grey Eye, sisters grey from their birth.

And both deathless gods and men who walk on earth call them Grey Eye, Pemphreito, Well-clad,

Saffron robed Enno, and the Gorgons who dwell beyond glorious ocean in the frontier land

towards night, where are the clear voiced hisparities, Stino and Uriale and Medusa who suffered

a woeful fate. She was mortal, but the two were undying and grew not old. With her lay the

dark-haired one in a soft meadow amid spring flowers, and when Perseus cut off her head,

their spring forth great Chrissiore and the horse Pegasus.

Happy fucking New Year! This is Let's Talk About Myths, baby! And I am your host, Liv,

here to start the year off with a bang, with a whole last episode on the different versions

and interpretations of one of the most controversial women in Greek mythology, Medusa.

And let's be clear, she's controversial now, she wasn't particularly controversial then,

which is of course part of the problem. Today's episode accompanies the bonus conversation that's

also come out today on all your feeds. I spoke with author and fellow classics nerd and when Kaya

Hayward about Medusa's influence on the internet. Twitter specifically, because here's the thing

about this fascinating Gorgon, she is a lightning rod for horrible men on the internet.

People, let's be honest, typically cisgendered men, love to find any and every righteous woman's

tweet about Medusa and angrily comment with some varied type of nonsense. If you call Medusa a

victim of sexual assault, a man will be there to point out that that's all Vinsvarsian and he's a

Roman. If you note that she was simply defending herself or that Perseus was in the wrong,

you will get a man telling you she was a monster and so she had to die. Or worse,

that her death was a release, that it was necessary that it relieve some kind of chaos,

that it was somehow in her best interests that she died. That one's a real mind-fuck and I've

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