In Greek mythology, Medusa (/mɪˈdjuːzə, -sə/; Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα means "guardian, protectress") may refer to the following personages:
- Medusa, one of the Gorgons.[1]
- Medusa, one of the Hesperides and the sister of Aegle, Hesperie and Arethusa.[2][3]
- Medusa, a Mycenaean princess as the daughter of King Sthenelus and Queen Nicippe (also called Antibia[4] or Archippe[5]), daughter of Pelops. She was the sister of Eurystheus and Alcyone.[6] Also called Astymedusa, she became the second wife of Oedipus after the death of Jocasta.[7]
- Medusa, a Trojan princess as daughter of King Priam.[8]
- Medusa, a princess of Iolcus as daughter of King Pelias and Queen Anaxibia, daughter of Bias.[9]
- Medusa, a resident of Pherae and daughter of Orsilochus.[10] She was probably the sister of Diocles[11] and Dorodoche, said by some to be the wife of Icarius.[12] Medusa married Polybus, king of Corinth and thus, adopted mother of Oedipus.[10]
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 274
- ^ Fulgentius, Expositio Virgilianae continentiae secundum philosophos moralis
- ^ Ersch, Johann Samuel (1830). Allgemeine encyclopädie der wissenschaften und künste in alphabetischer folge von genannten schrifts bearbeitet und herausgegeben von J. S. Ersch und J. G. Gruber. p. 148 [1]
- ^ Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 19.119
- ^ Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.172 & 195
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.5
- ^ The Scholia to Iliad 4.376 places the union following Oedipus' discovery that Jocasta was his mother; the marriage took place following Euryganeia's death according to the scholia to Euripides, Phoenissae 53 (citing Pherecydes, FGrHist 3 F 48).
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Pausanias, 10.26.9; Hyginus, Fabulae 90
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 24
- ^ a b Scholia ad Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 775
- ^ Homer, Iliad 5.547; Odyssey, 3.489 = 15.187
- ^ Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 15.16