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Perseus is not intimidated by the grey women and their eyeball, or by Hermes's complicated directions, or by Medusa, or by a winged horse sprouting out of Medusa's blood, or by Andromeda's boyfriend, or by his own dad.
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"GIVE US BACK THE EYE!"
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Darn youngsters, always running away with our eye!
"This happens all the blinking time!!!"
It's an important eye; it lets you see past, present and future:
*INDOOR PLUMBING, IT'S GONNA BE BIG.*
Hello
The intro is sooooo good
Yep, Greek myths are all like that:
Propercy: "Your son will make you not live".
Father: "Does something".
Father:"Dies".
Son : "Excuse me, what the fuck?"
The moral? Don't have children. They'll just kill you.
Stupidest .Death.Ever...
@@dimaignatiev6370 Pff, Edipos's father's death was more "epic".
Basically Oedipus Rex in a nutshell . . . but with incest. *Shivers*
You either die a hero or live long enough to solve all of your problems by turning people to stone.
@@IsaHoodie *granddad
Why not both
IS tHaT An ADMirAl Yi REfErence
So Perseus gets magic gear from the gods themselves, kills a legendary creature, then a terrifying monster, saves a princess and toples a monarch, BUT he fulfills the prophecy that started this whole thing by missthrowing a FRESBEE ? WHAT ?!
Really sounds like the writer at that time wrote an epic tale, wrote a whatever beginning, and when a buddy proof read it he went " You dont have a conclusion to your start", to witch the writer said: "Well he kills his dad with a fressbee or whatever, leave me alone!"
yeah, with full bronze fresbee, that weights around 10 kg, throwed by the son of zeus himself
Who say's he miss throws it? (actually the mythology probably does, but I prefer the "make it look like an accident cause its a king that I am killing" head cannon)
The irony... :)
The story ends with a big You cant escape fate!
This is way more like a typical DnD campaign than anything from Tolkien.
Well it's Greek myth. Why would you expect it to be Tolkienesque?
XD the middle earth makes a terrible d&d setting!
Gygax didn't like Tolkien.
They've even straight up got the right items, bag of holding and boots of haste/levitate, not sure which exactly.
There's a 3E-derived retro-game called Mazes and Minotaurs that takes "What if EGG was into Greek Myth instead of Golden Age fantasy?" as its starting point. It's lightweight and fun, and captures High Gygxian opinionated authorial voice like nothing since HackMaster.
“Hold my beer, your highness.”
In a D&D campaign. I, Neutral Good Barbarian, did this before charging off into battle. As the king offered to pay him to kill the other king. All the while the battle was going on. I was just chilling and watching a battle.
"Shut up and get behind me, Sir."
@@cpMetis Halo CE reference!
Wine would have been more appropriate.
Did they have beer at the time ?
1st episode: everybody is an idiot
2nd episode: Perseus 's christmas
lmao
"The nymphs of the North" sounds like a Scandinavian porn film
PORNHUB GET ON THIS!
The nymphos of the north
Yeah, pretty much. 😒
I think there is a porn film from Scandinavian by that title..........no I did not search on this.
I really wonder what Nymphs do all day and how they support their lifestyle.
Okay, I apparently heard a rather different Version of that whole Part with Andromeda.
In the Versions I know, she and Perseus actually speak with each other, before he kills the monster (which he does with the head of Medusa rather then his blade) and she falls in love with and agrees to marry him.
Also, her previous fiancee storms the Wedding-Feast with his friends and tries to murder Perseus and the others present to get Andromeda back, forcing him to kill the Attackers with Medusas Head.
But meh, I guess there are too many Versions of all Legends, so I should probably expect that the ones I know will not always be the ones you tell.
The one where the woman’s opinion does not really count sounds more like the reality of Green marriages however.
The one I heard had Hermes and Athena give him the items. You know, Hermes gave him the winged sandals that he himself is famously depicted with. Also the gods were less hand-holdy.
I feel like sharing different versions in the comments is productive, because it gives the viewers a wider scope of what's out there, rather than just one telling.
Keep on sharing different versions!
There's too many "official" retelling of ancient myths for any one to be "correct" sadly. It's weird watching/reading different retellings.
(From what I was taught/read)
- Medusa is beheaded while sleeping alone, and her sisters don't realize the death until Perseus has left.
- His gifts were given to him directly by the gods and the 'Gray Women' told him of a direct route to the Gorgon island. The Nymphs don't even factor in.
- Medusa is described as being "lesser than her sisters", and when Perseus goes to find her, she's much smaller and sleeps away from the others. As well as not having wings, but arms and claws instead.
- After Medusa is slain, instead of Pegasus and a man, it's Pegasus and its (Pegasus was genderless) sibling (also genderless) come out, tho the sibling doesn't have wings and is deep red.
- Once he finishes his quest, he never has to give back the sandals, sword, bag, or shield.
- And I don't think it's ever mentioned why Perseus was assisted by gods, but it's kinda implied that they helped him because of his "heritage" and the fact that he was (unknowingly) being tricked.
- And the only man he kills in the story is the one who makes advances on his mother (not counting the discus lmao).
is that the Percy Jackson Greek Heroes book version?
Andromeda isn’t amused.
Andromeda is never amused.
@@AbstractFive She seemed Amused at the end when the dad king trying to flirt with her was killed by the Disc.
You can say she wasn't... A-muse-d!
_Andromeda will remember this_
So unamused, her divorce settlement had a very important clause: another galaxy to live in.
3:24 When you're a TF2 Spy, and got spotted by 2 Pyros.
Lmao
*THAT ENGINEER IS A SPY INTENSIFIES*
He found a slightly elevated platform.
You watch LazyPurple?
@@bigboykenob2244 No I watch HardWorkingGreen
Perseus: Ok, so I use my wings to fly above the sea monster
DM: you do realize your too high up to make an attack right?
Perseus: eh, I'll get him next turn
DM: um, right. So now it's the sea monster's turn and he instantly notices you in the reflection on the water
Perseus: aw crap, didn't think of that, so much for my sneak attack bonus
DM: in response the monster... *rolls D20*
*dm reads result, than smacks his head on the table and breaths an exsasperated sigh*
DM: dives down into the water to attack your reflection, it still has no idea where you are
Perseus: HA!
DM: I gotta stop rolling for monster behavior
Wouldn't it be a D1, seeing as the Monster critically failed
This is so wonderfull! I want all mythology as an RPG conversation!
@@mini2239 The attack didn't fail. Before that, when it had to understand the shadow on the water though..
Alright so despite being holy hell late, I still want to point this out. The myth that Athena cursed Medusa to become a gorgon is Ovid' work and Ovid's work tended to make the Greek pantheon the absolutely worst assholes in existence. Like, worse than they were before. There are several tellings of this myth especially the one stating Medusa was born a gorgon and lived a gorgon until her demise. Of course everyone can hold their own personal 'canon' for greek myths since there are several versions of each myth but I just wanted to educate a few folks.
im starting to realize just how many magic items in d&d were inspired by mythology. boots of flying, invisibility items, bags of holding...
the ideas had to come from somewhere
D&D is basically a gran bag of myth, legend, fantasy stories (Tolkein, Howard, and others) and whatever the guys making it up were into (the monk was added, according to one of Gygax's original players, because one of the creators got really into martial arts movies).
Heck, some of the icomic monsters came from a bag of plastic monsters Gygax bought to use as miniatures for battle maps.
Cloak of Levitation. :)
Well, yeah. Show me a fantasy setting with absolutely no previous influence.
@@etcetera1995 Mesopotamia? Egypt? Norse?
Badly written B-rate fantasy films?
I need a bag that's always the perfect size
Always wear a bag that's the perfect size.
for research ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
You should really also wish for weight reduction tho
Reisesekken!
Too bad, because it was a normal magic bag filled with winds used to escape from the other Gorgons in the actual myth.
Time for some Alternate Version Notes:
1. Some versions have the various magic items given to Perseus by the nymphs instead given to him by the gods directly. You know, in case it wasn't obvious enough that Perseus was only succeeding because he had gods on his side.
2. Cetus was sometimes described as having clawed flippers and a red crest. The latter detail makes some people think it was inspired by giant oarfish, a very large species of fish notable for not eating princesses.
3. In the great tradition of removing narrative cul-de-sacs, most versions leave out Andromeda's other suitors. This has the side effect of helping the audience ignore the moral implications of giving out princesses like participation trophies.
4. On the note of "making Perseus less of a dick," many versions make the whole grandpa-murder-by-discus thing a total coincidence. He happened to be at the sports stadium, Perseus happened to throw the discus too hard and happened to hit the one guy he was blood-related to. Incidentally, my research has yet to find a version of Perseus's story which has a narratively satisfying conclusion to that prophecy.
5. Chrysaor isn't very well-described in most sources, and doesn't show up in other (surviving) myths AFAIK. Some interpretations have him as a golden boar-monster, or say that he was King of Iberia. Hesiod also mentions a Chrysaor who married Callirrhoe and was Geryon's dad.
chrysaor sounds similar to the city of chrysaoris in modern turkey, is there a relation?
@@diegoidepersia You know that city exists, that makes you more qualified to guess than I am. I couldn't even find the city on Wikipedia, just an ancient Greek colony of the same name.
@@timothymclean huh my research indicates it was a lycian colony thus not greek and the league in the area of caria the seleucids created was named after it but yeah no way to check if it was named after that
You should do the Epic of Gilgamesh!
PLEASE
I just want to see the moment where Gilgamesh throws the horn of.the bull to Ishtar like saying “It wasn't enough, thot"
Good idea
hell yea!
Big bridge
Andromeda is so done with EVERYBODY’S nonsense.
What to expect from the lady strapped to a rock because her mom thinks she is just *so hot...*
joão felipe bonaspetti lopes not to mention some random dude comes in and tells your father he’s gonna marry you, and then kills his fiancée
@@dumpy_frog did we mention the giant sea monster?
yeah pretty much
joão felipe bonaspetti lopes man Andromeda needs a hug after all this
Out of all his treasures, I like his shirt the most.
It takes a Bismarkian effort to make it true though. 😆
"PERSEUS! WE'VE GOT YER KNOWLEDGE! GIVE US BACK OUR EYE!"
Your thing says you posted three days ago,but it just came out
Perseus- "yeah, you can have it, if you can find in that lake"
(I read that in the voice of Grannysmith from mlp)
Polydectes:Can you get me Medusa's head
Perseus:(gets the head)
Polydectes:(insert stoned surprised pikachu meme)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Kosta Velev this is now how I imagine this to go down
In this episode, Perseus uses console commands to instakill opponent and disappear.
Perseus may have been a pretentious jerk that didn't consider Andromeda's feelings, but I think the one that gets the trophy of jerkassery is Athena. She was the one that transformed Medusa into a monster as "punishment" for having been raped by Poseidon, and now she has Medusa's head as part of her collection.
another myth states that Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon so no men? can ever harm her again (I remember seeing this one time)
@@trout8279 So that she can hang her severed head from her shield later on? Seems legit.
@@TheStoneTiger1 when you take strategy a step further
@@trout8279 From what I remember, Medusa was a priestess of Athena, and when Poseidon raped her, athena punished Medusa for allowing such a heinous crime to occur at her temple.
The reason athena helped Perseus cause he's her half brother and back then you were supposed to help your family no matter what
In the version I heard when I was a kid, Perseus went looking for his biological grandfather, found him, reconciled with him, they went to a sports competition together, and THEN he accidentally hit him with a discus. The granddad even managed a quick dying speech, as I recall.
I think I prefer this version though. It has a nice "womp womp" feeling to it.
As a side note, some version of the story have Perseus killing Acrisius with the discus after hitting him in the foot.
Which is hilarious to think about.
🎼🎵🎶When Captain America throws his mighty shield!🎶🎶🎵
EXCELSIOR!!
Bo3 in a nutshell
What is it with Greeks and death by foot injury?
Lully actually died from hitting himself on the foot with his conducting staff.
His foot got infected and denied to have it amputated.
@@quintenwhyte6660🎶All those who choose to oppose his shield must yield!🎶
Medusa did nothing wrong
Yeah, what DID she do?
Depends on the version. A lot of the Greek myths we know come from Ovid's Metamorphosises and he often portrayed the Gods in the worst possible way. In older sources they are, well they're still the Greek gods horny, petty, short tempered and not deities you want to be on the wrong side of but generally a little more reasonable. In some versions Medusa is born a monster like her sisters, or she was a more willing participant in the sacrilegious events in the temple.
Gunjα Fury she got raped by Poseidon in Athena's temple
Gunjα Fury The popular version is that she was a priestess at Athena’s temple where being a virgin is mandatory. Poseidon rapes her and then as punishment for being raped(???) Athena turns her into a gorgon
I read somewhere that Hera got jealous, cos Medusa was prettier and had someone rape Medusa (don't quote me on that). So Athena, or turned her into how we know her today. Someone said it was a form of protection. So she's just chilling, minding her own business and defending herself from guys just like Perseus, when he pops by and kills her for now reason. Watching Athena help murder her here is such a letdown
That end though ...
It's like the DM realizing at the last moment "crap I still got to bring in the prophecy somehow"
You can't help but feel bad for Acrisius at the end. But then recall how badly he treated his own daughter, so perhaps he deserved his comeuppance.
Great series, keep'em coming!
This video: Perseus
Me a Percy Jackson fan: speed
so basically
Nymphs: oh hey i think we were expecting you, we got you this stuff
Athena and Hermes: are we late to the party? thats okay, we got you stuff, too
Perseus: what
Gotta love how the prophecy that was such a big deal at the beginning was resolved as an afterthought.
Also, I love the EC interpretation of Andromeda being just so done with everyone's shit.
I need those sandals. Every time I try to steel cookies from my grannys house I get caught(っ◞‸◟c)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think you need the invisibility cap even more.
Anders Åsblom great. Now I'm imagining a grandma having a heart attack seeing a cookie jar opening and a floating cookie
@@Ethan-mp7wr Put it in your pocket and she won't see the cookie
Oh please do more! Im loving this series~ The quality in the script, delivery and animation!
I know it's childish, but since the word "perse" means ass (as in butt) in Finnish, my mother tongue, I can't take these epic tales seriously. Also ruined the tale of Persefone for me :D
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "purse snatcher." 😜
Oh, and about Persefone, the way we pronounce it , even worse, makes it sound a bit like "persephone", or "assphone".
Troy Carr oh god 😆
Well he was kind of an ass
God i fucking love you Finns, i really needed that laugh.
1:23 What you looking at there Perseus?
I love how Hermes always has food in his hands
The original Gorgon sisters are such underutilized creatures in fiction.
Cursed by the gods, went out of their way to hide away, hurt only those that came looking to fight them, and still got shafted so severely.
There's some really potent tales to be told there, I'd say. Doubly so if you actually acknowledge just how messed up their origin story is by modern standards.
Well the other two sister's origin story is basically "born that way", they weren't cursed or anything just more monstrous offspring of some of the older gods. In some versions Medusa is like that too.
Read Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. The Gorgon sisters are very well-utilized in a volume called "The Kindly Ones". Also, Gaiman uses many versions of the Three...they appear many, many times in the story in various guises. Masterful storytelling, there. Well worth checking out even if you're not much of a comics reader.
Type-moon's Fate franchise gives the gorgon sisters a lot of screen time. Granted, they're not exactly depicted the way you might expect, but still.
"hurt only those looking to fight them" where did you get this from?
The original Gorgon sisters were just gorgons... nothing else
Dude extra mythology may be my favourite Extra Credits series to date, even more than Extra History... it is... INCREDIBLE
I'm by no means an expert on the migrations of ancient peoples but....shouldn't the Ethopian Andromeda be....browner?
The Ethiopians period should be
PavarottiAardvark the people were black (like today) but the "rulling class" were Greeks.
According to Greek Mythology, the Ethiopians (Ethiopians being all black Africans to the Greeks) used to be white until Helios' son stole his dad's chariot and drove it a bit too close to Earth, burning everyone so badly that all Ethiopians were black from then on. I'm not even kidding that's how the Greeks explained the existence of darker skinned people in Africa.
Yep. Even the name "aithiops" means "brown-faced".
Not really. This isn't the actual Ethiopia, this is a place in a story that is named Ethiopia in order to make it seem more realistic. Sort of like how there was a city named Troy, but the story of Troy is not the story of that real place, Homer just used the name Troy to make it seem like history.
I always found it difficult to find source materials for a lot of this plus the immaculates of the writing meant that it took so long to read through all of it this is a great way to spend just a couple minutes and learn about mythology people's beliefs /events that happened in history I love the show and everything that it stands for I hope you get lots of support you have mine!!!! XD
I thought the discus part was from the story of Oedipus, but knowing Greek mythology, it’s probably from both
It's not from Oedipus.
Larry Lewinsohn I remember fairly well reading it in the play of Oedipus back in Mythology class, and it’s absence from the story of Perseus. However, as a I mentioned, these stories are very, very old, and modern tellings of them often overlap
Oedipus kills his father because they fight at a cross road, than he goes to Thebes, solves the Sfynx riddle, marries his mother and then he blinds himself when he finds out. Funny stuff.
@@gianlucab5220 Yeah, these classic myths are a laugh.
I love how Andramada is like ‘meh’ during the whole slaying the Kraken
Poor Medusa
Nymphs: *giving Perseus the items*
Me:why is he blushing...oh...OH!
Chiron from Percy Jackson is like, 4:01 😂😂😂.
I just realized the three gifts are all shown in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. Annabeth’s Yankees cap, Grover’s flying sneakers, and Percy’s backpack from Ares. Cool!
Coming from someone who has seen all Extra Credits videos : These are nice, but just a wee bit too "hip". Like cut down the amount of memes like "Hold my beer" for about 8%, and the newer videos should match the Extra Credits - label of quality.
P.S You guys are awesome, just focus a little
Perseus: so you can do literally anything, no matter how it affects my journey?
Hermes: (picks up acorn) yep; definitely.
P: how about telling me where the end of this side quest-
H: sorry kid, we gods don't do cheat codes.
P: so I get weapons and garments, but no info-
H: (casually eating the acorn) pretty much, kiddo.
P: but I thought you said-
H: sorry kid; rules are rules.
P:but you are the rules!
H: your darn right we are. C'ya
I'm surprised you didn't mention Medusa's origins. She was a priestess of Athena. Some say she had an affair with Poseidon in Athena's temple, others say she bragged that she was prettier than Athena while combing her hair one day. Regardless, Athena turned her into a Gorgon. They say that the Pegasus was medusa's offspring from her affair with Poseidon.
Witch is why Poseidon is the god of Pegasus and hoarse and earthquakes and the sea what else is there
On another hand, I like the way you represented the gorgons, it is nice to get a different version from the usual “snake topless women”.
I though a winged boar also cam out for Medusa along with Pegasus, not a winged human?
Chrysaor, whose name means “[he] who has a golden sword,” is depicted as either a winged boar or a winged humanoid.
"Stop shaking your head, you all know this is how things worked in those days."
Best quote so far. :3
5:10 "uncool" do this mean oversimplified history
I’ve always felt sympathy for Medusa. It reeeeeally wasn’t her fault that she got turned into a Gorgon.
Nobody asked andromeda about getting married ok let’s ask her would you rather get married or eaten
The guy she was betrothed to was her own uncle, because... Greek mythology, so I would think she'd be grateful to have someone else marry her instead. Especially if he just saved her life and the lives of the rest of her people- something they didn't exactly see her uncle doing.
"..and she thinks for a minute.."
I like to imagine that they’ve all been sitting there for hours upon hours hearing all of his mythology stories around the campfire. Just listening to him talk about all of history as a whole. 6:47
I would love to see one about Achilles
Andromeda, Hermes, Perceus and Pegasus have all had Royal Navy warships named after them too :) .
(three of them being used for Aircraft Carriers)
So, were the Fates in the Disney Hercules movie conflated with the Grey Women, or were they the same thing before that? I know, not the point of the video, but it is something worth wondering about.
Yeah, Disney was being inaccurate again.
Well the three fates are named Anthrops, Lankesis and Clotho. And no the three sisters of fate and the grey woman are entirely different entities. The three sisters of fate are children of titans.
pyrosianheir the fates weren’t the same thing
Looks like they mix both of them.
There were many versions of the Three: Atropos, Lachesis and Clotho were the Three Fates; there were the Grey Women (who were probably the inspiration for the three witches in Macbeth); the Three Furies who punished kin-slayers--some even count the three Gorgons as a version. Some scholars speculate that the many trios of women in Greek mythology are references to an older, 3-faced Goddess. Other scholars say that the 3-fold Goddess is hogwash. *shrug*
You know I just love that in most stories about people trying to avoid fate it is usually their actions to avoid it that cause them to occur.
Wait, wasn't it just Medusa that was a 'monstrous' Gorgon out of the three Gorgon sisters? From what I remember, her sisters Stheno and Euryale were, well, quite frankly, beautiful enough to give Aphrodite a run for her money.
Medusa means "Protectress" or "Guardian", for that was what she was, the Guardian of her sisters, who, because of their beauty, were sought after by countless men, few, if any of them, having noble intentions or true love behind their actions. Add that Medusa was the ONLY one of the three Gorgon sisters that was mortal and well, sooner or later envy and hatred set in, transforming her into the monster we all know today and she devoured her sisters. Though, with them being immortal, they didn't die, but one day, they woke up next to the decaying remains of Medusa, after having been slain by Perseus.
Then again, there are plenty contradictions in different versions of myths...
That's from the Nasu-Verse Fate series
No, that version has no ancient Greek sources...
Every depiction I've ever seen of Athena's shield has Medusa's head imbedded into its center, not dangling underneath it. Speaking of Medusa, have you noticed how she's a victim in this story? She spends the entire myth on a remote island minding her own business, up until the point where Perseus murders her in her sleep. OUR HERO, EVERYONE.
(There's actually a lot of really interesting mythological and historical context surrounding Medusa that I kind of wish you had gone into a bit, but oh well.)
Why do the gods always have so many gifts to give to random adventurers
They like messing with people.
I am pretty sure Perseus made a failure during the attack on the gorgons and they awoke and he got into epic combat.
Always knew Frisbees were killer....
It was around ten years or so after the whole slaying-Medusa-and-coming-back affair that Perseus misthrew his discus and hit King Acrisius. When he did, he smashed Acrisius' *toe.* And he languished for weeks as gangrene took him.
Wasn't Ethiopia the land of blacks? Like literally coming from the Greek for the people of burnt faces? Why aren't they portrayed as such?
yeah, andromeda in greek art is portrayed with non-Greek features and in Ovid is referred to as having "a dark complexion" multiple times.
The winged horse and man that flew from Medusa's blood were Pegasus and Chrysaor, her sons she had with Poseidon, because for some reason Greek myths had really weird birthing processes.
Which also means Hercules in the movie was given his cousin as a pet. The fuck, Zeus?!
Now, ya know, I ain't no genius, but, ya know, "Ethiopia" literally translates to "Land of the burnt faces" - in modern Sudan. I'd think that the Ethiopians would be a bit... uh... how do I put this... "darker"?
That bothers me so much about most portrayals of Andromeda too. And considering Extra Credits usually espouses a progressive point of view, I'm disappointed that they went the whitewashed route here too.
Perseus goes to sports competition to avoid killing his father
Perseus: *throws discus*
Discus: *double doink*
OMG theese faces
Now that's some high stakes frisbee golf
I thought Chrysaor (if that's how its spelled) was a boar?
Depends on the version of the myth.
I love how the winged man and Pegasus popping out of the still warm corpse of Medusa is just an afterthought.
This myth is such a mess
Aren't they all?
@@ironmilutin They all are.
But entertaining af
Considering there’s always 10 different versions of a Greek Myth I’d say yeah
The aigis is less of a shield, and more of a goatskin or hide cuirass.
Also Perseus' story most def did not just end there. He went back to the Peloponnese and fought for years to seize his birthright in Argos, which had been taken over by Acrisius' brother. He founded Mycenae as a citadel from which to launch his war.
And he didn't get a sword, Harpé was more of a scythe or sickle, but you know. Multiple versions theory~
Ok I understand the Pegasus: Medusa was turned into a Gargoyle because she slept with Posidon, creater of horses, but why the winged man?
Now that you mention it, I don't quite get the logic there.
Gargoyle? You mean Pegasus?
Gorgon not Gargoyle and the myth actually says that Medusa was punished because Poseidon raped her in Athena's temple which was considered a grave insult(punishing a rape victim hasn't aged well)
Daniil Pashuk In some versions it’s not a winged man, but a winged boar. We know little to nothing about it.
@@nessesaryschoolthing I understand why a Pegasus came out of Medusa, but not a winged man. I dont see any connection to him neither through my knowledge about Medusa neither her past
I really want to be with you extra credits. You are the best TH-camr ever.
5:12 Dude, Perseus, so not cool.
AkaiAzul oversimplified uncool extra credits version
I read this story for English class in 6th grade. In that version Perseus uses Medusa's head to turn the sea monster to stone instead of slicing it like he does in this version.
Dude, Acrisius was his Grandfather not Dad.
Well I know of a different version. The boots were basically a rental from Hermes, the cap, was stolen from Hades, and the shield was still offered by Athena, and the sword was given to him by his dad.
what is the song at the end called?
I like how he keeps pointing out that the ladies are like "HELLO!? YOU DIDN'T ASK US??"
You guys also read percy jackson?
Yea
To be fair, Phineus (Andromeda's other suitor) was not only her UNCLE, but also was just interested in using her so he could inherit her father's throne.
Wait a minute?🤔Does looking at the head through a computer screen...
Is not you looking at it what turns you into stone, it's the other way around.
Hah, I guess no for the same reason the mirror doesn't work.
Only if you have a soul
The version I read said that it wasn't just any invisibility cap. It was Hades's actual helmet that the nymphs happened to have in their possesion at the time. I guess that from the 3 legendary armaments Zeus, Poseidon and Hades got from the cyclops brothers, the helmet wasn't so OP that mortals could use it.
Ah yes, the ancient Greeks sure were bastions in women's rights.
Actually it also depends on what greek city state. Spartan women were very empowered. There's a video on it by Civilis here on youtube I think .
In comparison offcourse
The ancient Greeks were not a homogeneous culture. Spartan women for example received an education and could inherit from their husbands and enjoyed a fair degree of independence as they often managed their lands while their husbands were training or fighting. The end result was although they could not directly take part in politics their wealth gave them a great deal of influence even with Sparta's attempts to do away with money.
Having rights might sound great for the men but being a citizen meant you were expected to go off and fight for your city state, and large numbers of both men and women were slaves.
Generally speaking the ancient world sucked a pretty much everybody unless you were a member of the elite, and possibly even then.
@@101Mant True, enough. Wish I had more to say, but just about everything you said there was accurate of Ancient Greece
In other words, Sparta did something right for a change.
In the tellings I'm more familiar with has a number of differences.
the invisibility cap is actually the helm of Hades. the sports competition is the first Olympics.
One of the reasons the guy sent off Perseus was because he learned that he was the son of Zeus and feared he might kill him before he could marry his mother.
Also, by marrying Perseus' mother Perseus would be unable to kill him for fear of Divine punishment.
Also, when he arrives from his quest the dude already forced Perseus' mother into marriage, so instead he gifts him the bag as a trophy, which he looks into and turns to stone, this bypasses the whole Divine punishment thing.
Hermes is such a bro, he totally didnt tell him first the location of the gorgons so that he wouldnt face them unprepared.
How is this channel not at least TOP 10
Kills a monster while it is sleeping, even with all those god-given items. What a hero.
I find it funny that in order to stay silent, Perseus used his winged shoes which probably made more noise than just walking.
While versions of this myth may vary, there were also expansions to it. Nonnos, in the 47th book of his epic 'Dionysiaca', has Dionysus invade Argos, where Perseus is king, after his successful campaign in India. Perseus still has his winged sandals and Medusa's head, and he gives battle against Dionysus and his satyrs and maenads. Hera fights on Perseus' side, disguised as a seer. The warriors of Argos are armed with all sorts of legendary spears, against which Dionysus' host displays the murderous revelry they are known for. Dionysus wears a diamond that counters the effect of Medusa's head, and he swells in size to astronomical proportions, reaching with his hands the sun and moon and even Olympus itself. Perseus darts around, preferring to fight off his opponent's host than to deal with him directly, and he turns Ariadne (Dionysus' wife, who was gleefully fighting in the battle) to stone. Dionysus' wrath would have been horrible, but Hermes calmed him down, and convinced him to make peace with Perseus, who was after all his half-brother. And thus Argos was the only place in Greece that successfully resisted Dionysus' nigh-unstoppable expansion.
6:39 Andromeda looks... too happy to see Perseus kill his father.
nice to hear how it all really went down hollywood has ruined me when it comes to Greek myths can't wait to hear more this series is super tight!
He rematches into his bag of holding and..
DABS
Critical hits
Fun fact. People assume Athena gave Perseus a shield. Because it seems plausible and more useful, but in she gave him an "aegis" ( or Ägäis). .. Wich in truth no one really knows what it refers to, it could be a shield or something like a chest plate.
Aw man, the best part was that he says to the guy that wanted to marry his mom "here's your wedding gift" before showing him the head!