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In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," but because Poseidon had raped her in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone.[6] In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Minerva (Athena) as just and well earn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa

In other words, Medusa was a rape victim punished by the gods for being a rape victim and her supposed evil was that she turned armed men that barged into her home into stone after she had previously been raped?

I mean.... wow.
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