Poseidon: If a woman says no it just means yes, if someone insults me I will murder them. If someone asks me to murder someone I probably will even if it makes Artemis angry! Seriously Poseidon's history of rape in the mythology is creepy as heck.
I mean that's pretty true for Poseidon in Greek Mythology in general. He's basically just around to be a looming potential threat and doesn't really do anything else other than fuck shit up.
@@francisharkins Never, don't ever, say that your daughter is prettier than a sea nymph. Either you luck out and a wild Perseus wanders by, or nothing good happens
@@nemesisman1863 it also doesn't make sense, in the roman version Medusa would have been a Priestess of Athena and taken a vow of chastity. It is also sacrilege for any sexual act to happen in Athena's temple and we're places of safety for women. Most likely Poseidon did not receive consent when he, ya know....
@@flowerchild2496 Yeah, Ovid had a thing against authority; so he deliberately made Athena/Minerva, the strongest advocate for authority in the pantheon, look like a tyrant. Some person after Ovid took his version and made it so that Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon as a means of protecting her self from being violated in the future.
@@Brian-tn4cd It's the other way around... The Percy Jackson books reference a lot of the old greek myths (obviously) and is inspired by the original Perseus' quest. Percy's mother even says he was named after the greek hero Perceus.
It's not clear if they are actually sisters or not. It changes from myth to myth. In the one where she's raped by Poseidon in Athena's temple, she was just a normal pretty lady. Who then gets cursed by Athena for desecrating her temple (talk about victim blaming) and she goes to live with the Gorgon sisters. With whom she wasn't related. Then there's other versions where she was always one of the Gorgons and didn't get cursed. She was just born like that
@@wave1090 the one where she get turn into snake lady by Athena is a later reimagine by Ovid, a Roman poet , in Greek origin myth Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale were children of Phorcys and Ceto and part of the Gorgon sister trio ( number 3 was kinda a big thing in ancient greek myth , ex. their sister the Graeae trio , or the Children of Kronos being 3 brother and 3 sister , etc) , though wheter she is beautiful or montrous depend on specific depiction Of course if you dont give af about actual history context when dealing with mythology and religious then these info doesnt matter anyway
I see people in this comment section getting confused between many versions of Medusa The earlier versions of Medusa were that she was born a monster. The later version was Ovid’s version (hes roman, so this is actually a roman account of roman mythology, not greek mythology) This was where Medusa was SA’d by Poseidon. Keep in mind, Ovid is roman and also hated authority because of personal reasons. He may be unreliable due to this as a result. Also to clear up another misconception, Roman gods are not greek gods renamed, roman people had their own traditions and their gods were different. I like placing sources (evidence is sexy) on my comments so here it is Evidence Medusa was born a monster : Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "From Gorgon and Ceto [were born] : Sthenno, Euryale, Medusa." Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 10 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Phorkys (Phorcys) and Keto (Ceto) had [offspring] the Phorkides (Phorcides) and the Gorgones (Gorgons)." (Parentage of greek monsters/dieties always differ depending on versions so yeah, its why different parents are listed here.) Ovid’s version : Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 770 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "[Medousa (Medusa)] was violated in Minerva's [Athena's] shrine by the Lord of the Sea (Rector Pelagi) [Poseidon]. Jove's [Zeus'] daughter turned away and covered with her shield her virgin's eyes. And then for fitting punishment transformed the Gorgo's lovely hair to loathsome snakes."
@@alyssar272 Syncretism. The romans pretended or believed the greeks were worshipping their gods, when really they just had a pantheon of a similar origin to the Romans'.
@@videogollumer yes. In the Typhoes story, the gods run to Egypt and take animals form there before they came back, and to the greeks the egyptians gods where just the greek ones. They also believed that Trojans, syrians and persians also worshiped the same gods, but with difference names. For example persians where know to worship Ahura Mazda the lord of fire, and they also lived in the east, so just say they worship Helius or are his descendants. King Aeetes was the son of Helius and he lived in the east, Medea his daugher also teached Persians magic. Phaetom the guy that created the Saara Desert was also Helius son and he was a Syrian. The Egyptians descended of Zeus (trough Epaphus son of Io), and Poseidon (trough some daughters of said Epaphus).
My favorite part is where the storyteller belatedly realizes that, after giving the hero his "accomplish the quest and get the girl" bit, he still needs to shoehorn in a "oh, right, he needs to kill his pappy, b/c prophecy" subplot at the very end. Clearly, the front and back of the story didn't get properly linked up in the first place
I like how Greeks are about Zeus' kids while Poseidon stares at the wall, creating stuff like gifts and troubles, while holding the record for the most demigods.
I'm glad the algorithm recommended you through your RWBY animations. I honestly love Mythology Lores and your sense of humor is just my kind of thing. I'm excited to see your takes on Norse Myths and hope you can do other Pantheons in the Future such as Maya or Chinese. Keep it up man!
@@thoroughlyjordan Because people from North Africa didn't have dark skin, that was subsaharan Africa, so it isn't accurate. It would have been if she had actually been from modern day Ethiopia, but she wasn't
@@thesegundovolante Aethiopia is first mentioned by Homer, and refers to the home of the Aethiopes. That word comes from the roots for "burnt" and "face" i.e. dark-skinned. Further, Herodotus defined it as all of the land South of Egypt (modern day Sudan, which is both North Africa and sub-Saharan).
Greek Mythology has always been my favorite. People thought it was overdone so they go to Norse mythology. Well now, largely thanks to marvel Thor, Norse mythology is overdone lol.
I love the end of this myth. Its like the author completely forgot he started the thing with a "death by grandson" prophecy and then had to shoe in a way for the king to get killed. "Oh, wait, damn, that prophecy thing! Uhhhhh, I guess he accidentally domes him with a frisbee."
This was a great video, wanna clarify that first. Okay so, the story of Medusa is actually a lot more fucked up. So one of the more common story for this was essentially, Poseidon wanted to fuck Medusa, Medusa said no, Poseidon went after her and tried to kidnap her, Medusa ran to Athena for help. Athena said no, Poseidon RAPED Medusa, Athena didn't like that Medusa had sex and turned Medusa into the snake hair lady. Medusa was the freaking victim in the whole story.
aw gosh darn these are great, also since you're gonna be doing norse mythology, i'm icelandic and also a norse myths enthusiast so please free to ask if you need help with pronunciation or anything like that
I love the fact that you drew Andoremeda as a black woman because she actually was, she was an African princess and is so annoying that she's white in every representation I've seen.
Gotta say, at first I was like, that can't be right when I saw it, cause Africa during that time usually referred to North Africa at that time, which especially with the Egyptian looking father as the other commenter pointed out would've just made it inaccurate, but no. She was Ethiopian, she was genuinely black.
Yeah I just wish he gave her father the right clothes since Ethiopian royal attire is gorgeous. The royal family of Ethiopia is also pretty ancient since they’re the world’s first orthodox Christian country so their culture and clothing is pretty unique.
@@joaomartins9800 Aethiopia in ancient greece described Upper egypt & Nubia, not Abyssinia. Ethiopia is not Aethiopia, just like Mauritania is not Mauretania (morroco) and Ghana empire was not in Ghana. Aethiopia was seen as ruled from Meroe hence the Kushite style clothing.
There's different versions of the story. Earlier ones do state that Medusa consensually hooked up with Poseidon and later stories see her as a victim. Nowadays people accept the later versions (which is said to have started because [insert complicated greek name] hated the gods and wanted to make them seem as bad as possible) more because some seem to... romanticise the idea that Medusa was a victim who got blamed by Athena for something she didn't do... which is stupid if you ask me, but I don't make the rules. Although tbf most women in Greek Mythology didn't really have a say in whether or not they hooked up with someone, esp a god. But still. I expect Jake used this version because getting into the subject of r&pe in a funny greek mythology video is a tasteless and kinda weird.
Actually the plate hit Acrisius’s foot, he didn’t die from the the pressure on his head. He had a panic attack which killed him as his heart was unable to pump blood.
Hey it's froggy from the OSP discord serveur, I have some general feeling on your three mythologie video so far that may or may not be usefull to you. I'll share them but I'm just some idiot on the internet so don't take them too much to heart (and feel free to just ignore them). First off I really enjoyed watching them and overall felt that they are very good. I just had one issue watching them concerning the pacing of the script. To quote something Mark Twain never actually said "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter leter" (it's probably not the exact quote but he never said it aniway so who cares), I feel that your script in particular could use more cuting out. In this one for exemple, the part where your remarque on the sarcasm of the intro felt very unnecessary to me, and really cut the rythm of your video. In your previous video aswell there were some part that felt like you had an idea that you really wanted to include despite the fact it didn't realy fit in the final product. I'm thinking of your ending on the Pandora video with the "and all human history ended with me" quip, which was, in and of itself, a good joke, and funny. But it also felt off compared to the rest of the script. Like for a balance, that needs to have exact same weight on either side, you might need to throw pepites of gold for the sake of equilibrium. Also on this video in particular I think you might have want to at least briefly mention the Ovide version of the history of Medusa where she gets r*ped, because as the video gets more and more viewer you will never stop getting more and more message accusing you of victim blaming. Which, to be clear, you didn't do, but maybe only ever heard of Ovid version and won't look much farther.
You're right on the mark about the intro. I was thinking the same thing about my little titlecard tangent dragging out too long while I was animating it. But I wanted to get the video done, so I didn't wanna go back a rethink that part. I'm a bit worried that a lot of people actually clicked off of the video before I actually got into the story. Generally, the beginning and ending of each video are the hardest parts to write by far. Especially since I've kinda locked myself into a formula for my videos. I may need to rethink my general approach in some aspects. As for Medusa, I wanted to avoid getting into the subject of her abuse because that's not something I want to joke about on my channel. At the same time though, I realize that it's not a good idea to just cover up any aspect of history that makes people uncomfortable. I'm planning to start making vlog-style videos where I talk about the stuff I've learned about mythology in the process of making my videos. The horrendous misogyny of many Ancient Greek societies, as evident in their folklore, will absolutely be something I touch on in one of those videos.
@@JakeDoubleyoo if you've never watched it the podcast Cortex by CGP grey and Mike Hurley is definitely for you. They discuss how they work and as you probably know grey is very successful youtubeur who's main obstacle, according to him is writing scripts. There's definitely stuff for you there, even in the first few episodes. I wouldn't be too worried about people living early, I've always heard from content creator that average graph always as a drop at the beginning as the people who change their mind leave.
The story I know was that he was looking where she's at with just the mirror and chopped her head and not that he was invisible. Great video tho loved it. Might have been a different version since there are many out there.
I used this as a source for one of my finals! (No, this isn't the only one and had multiple other sites backing up the information in this video, I'm using this as one of the sources because it was one of the only reason I even know about Perseus' tale)
AN interesting thing I heard once was that the "Shower of gold" could be a metaphor meaning a guy came in throwing a lot of money around to bribe the guards for some banging time.
Ooh can you please do a story on Theseus -SPOILER WARNING- guy who found sandals & sword under a boulder (his dad buried them) lifted it, decided to meet his father and on the way killed some (supposed) killers, got to his fathers kingdom, nearly got posioned but his father recognised the sandals and saved him Then he went to fight the minotaur, forgot to change the sails on his ship so his father commited unaliving himself, abandoned the very same princess who helped him survive the minotaur in the first place (but she ended up marrying Dyonisis so she had a happy ending). Bonus: He kidnapped a ten year old child, the queen of the amazons & helped his friend to kidnap Phersephone (you know, WHOS HUSBAND IS THE GOD OF THE DEAD)
His dad really did die in an "ultimate frisbee" game it was basically exactly how, if I remember correctly he had to go through some more shit as penance for accidentally killing his dad
A bit of correction for medusa, it was found out that medusa was actually ummm *forcefully* hooked up with Poseidon, she went into the temple of athens hoping she could be protected by Poseidon. But the rest is history
Thats also not true if you get that from the poet ovid (who was roman i might add) in the theogony (a work done by an actual greek poet) medusa is 1 of 3 gorgon sister that predate the gods
Your medusa origin is incorrect. You kinda combined two conflicting myths. One of which was written in about the 1800s AD as a sort of Christianization of the Medusa myth, where she was a priestess of Athena who was raped by Poseidon and punished by Athena for breaking her vow of abstinence, and one was the original story which saw Medusa being born as a gorgon with two sisters. There is no "official" Greek Mythology, but the latter Medusa story is generally the 'Correct' telling
I based Medusa's origin off of Ovid's Metamorphoses, who to be fair was Roman and probably came up with the story himself. (Though I did also like the original idea that her and her sisters were still born as monsters with snake hair, so I kept that in too) I sometimes cheat and go for non-greek sources if it helps create a more compelling narrative. But I'm not aware of any elements I took from a version so recent as the 1800's. Can you elaborate?
@@JakeDoubleyoo mightve gotten just a little bit mixed up there, it was like 4am, i think i was thinking about "Prometheus Bound" which was early 1900s
@@JakeDoubleyoo Damn, i know theres at least one collection of Greek Myths that have been distilled at some point in the late 19th century and early 20th. Either way, the original story of Medusa goes one way, a later retelling goes another, you combined both. Nothing wrong with that, but it might confuse people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I like how Poseidon is just like a side character that just causes a bunch of problems in this story.
Poseidon: If a woman says no it just means yes, if someone insults me I will murder them. If someone asks me to murder someone I probably will even if it makes Artemis angry!
Seriously Poseidon's history of rape in the mythology is creepy as heck.
I mean that's pretty true for Poseidon in Greek Mythology in general. He's basically just around to be a looming potential threat and doesn't really do anything else other than fuck shit up.
@@francisharkins Never, don't ever, say that your daughter is prettier than a sea nymph. Either you luck out and a wild Perseus wanders by, or nothing good happens
wait til you hear about the odyssey
Wait till you hear the one where Poseidon actually sent Perceus to rescue the princess
“But then one day Zeus came strolling by.”
Half of mythology summarized in one sentence.
Half your giving Zeus too much credit
THEN ALONG CAME ZEUS!
@@roberthui9714 HE HURLED HIS THUNDERBOLT
@@andistansbury4366 HE ZAPPED
@@roberthui9714 TRAPPED THOSE SUCKERS IN A VAULT
All things considered Athena's curse kind of backfired. It just made every dude that looked at Medusa rock hard.
U think ur so funny dont u
@@spino-ace I also think that
*THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST CURSED THINGS I HAVE EVER READ*
@@Obi-wankenobiyearsago hello there
Eeeeeeeeeeh!
Zeus gets around toooooo much. But at least he tends to take care of them in some capacity like guiding them to safety from the dangers of the ocean.
What about the dangers of his pissed off wife who took here anger out on the demigod kids?
@@biecie *looks at Hercules for a split second*
@@francisharkins his death was super gross and weird. At least the version I heard of anyway.
He is the absent father that gets you out of jail and sends occasional gifts, the gifts being magical loot from the gods.
@@PedroMelloA pretty darn good gifts
The way you draw Hermes brings me immense joy
the “Athena turning medusa into a gorgon” thing is actually a roman myth. medusa was always just a gorgon
Yup. I cheated and used Ovids version because it was more interesting.
Yes that is actually just wrong for Athena to be blamed
Damned Minerva getting Athena blamed for being irrational like all the other gods when she's probably the most sane
@@nemesisman1863 it also doesn't make sense, in the roman version Medusa would have been a Priestess of Athena and taken a vow of chastity. It is also sacrilege for any sexual act to happen in Athena's temple and we're places of safety for women. Most likely Poseidon did not receive consent when he, ya know....
@@flowerchild2496 Yeah, Ovid had a thing against authority; so he deliberately made Athena/Minerva, the strongest advocate for authority in the pantheon, look like a tyrant. Some person after Ovid took his version and made it so that Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon as a means of protecting her self from being violated in the future.
The title just makes me think Percy fighting Medusa in Percy Jackson and the lightning thief
So many references to the Percy Jackson books too XD
Same
Percy was named after Perseus as well
@@Brian-tn4cd It's the other way around... The Percy Jackson books reference a lot of the old greek myths (obviously) and is inspired by the original Perseus' quest. Percy's mother even says he was named after the greek hero Perceus.
@@Mercyfalls i was referring to the video, ive read the books i know that
I didn't know Medusa has sisters.
It was quickly, but it went to the important things. So yeah, it's a good video.
It's not clear if they are actually sisters or not. It changes from myth to myth. In the one where she's raped by Poseidon in Athena's temple, she was just a normal pretty lady. Who then gets cursed by Athena for desecrating her temple (talk about victim blaming) and she goes to live with the Gorgon sisters. With whom she wasn't related. Then there's other versions where she was always one of the Gorgons and didn't get cursed. She was just born like that
@@wave1090
They can also be sisters without having the same blood.
Maybe they agreed to take Medusa in, coming to consider her a sister.
@@wave1090 the one where she get turn into snake lady by Athena is a later reimagine by Ovid, a Roman poet , in Greek origin myth Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale were children of Phorcys and Ceto and part of the Gorgon sister trio ( number 3 was kinda a big thing in ancient greek myth , ex. their sister the Graeae trio , or the Children of Kronos being 3 brother and 3 sister , etc) , though wheter she is beautiful or montrous depend on specific depiction
Of course if you dont give af about actual history context when dealing with mythology and religious then these info doesnt matter anyway
@@wave1090 Her not being related to Stheno and Euryale would make some sense, since the two elder sisters are both immortal, but Medusa wasn't.
This was so good! I'm not personally into Greek mythology but this was educating and funny at the same time. I really enjoyed this!
Can i just say that you are so underrated
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I see people in this comment section getting confused between many versions of Medusa
The earlier versions of Medusa were that she was born a monster.
The later version was Ovid’s version (hes roman, so this is actually a roman account of roman mythology, not greek mythology) This was where Medusa was SA’d by Poseidon. Keep in mind, Ovid is roman and also hated authority because of personal reasons. He may be unreliable due to this as a result.
Also to clear up another misconception, Roman gods are not greek gods renamed, roman people had their own traditions and their gods were different.
I like placing sources (evidence is sexy) on my comments so here it is
Evidence Medusa was born a monster :
Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"From Gorgon and Ceto [were born] : Sthenno, Euryale, Medusa."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 10 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Phorkys (Phorcys) and Keto (Ceto) had [offspring] the Phorkides (Phorcides) and the Gorgones (Gorgons)."
(Parentage of greek monsters/dieties always differ depending on versions so yeah, its why different parents are listed here.)
Ovid’s version :
Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 770 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"[Medousa (Medusa)] was violated in Minerva's [Athena's] shrine by the Lord of the Sea (Rector Pelagi) [Poseidon]. Jove's [Zeus'] daughter turned away and covered with her shield her virgin's eyes. And then for fitting punishment transformed the Gorgo's lovely hair to loathsome snakes."
if they arent the same thing renamed then why are gods always listed with their roman or greek equivalent
@@alyssar272 Syncretism. The romans pretended or believed the greeks were worshipping their gods, when really they just had a pantheon of a similar origin to the Romans'.
@@swordofstabbingold Didn't the Ancient Greeks do that with the Ancient Egyptians?
@@videogollumer yes. In the Typhoes story, the gods run to Egypt and take animals form there before they came back, and to the greeks the egyptians gods where just the greek ones. They also believed that Trojans, syrians and persians also worshiped the same gods, but with difference names. For example persians where know to worship Ahura Mazda the lord of fire, and they also lived in the east, so just say they worship Helius or are his descendants. King Aeetes was the son of Helius and he lived in the east, Medea his daugher also teached Persians magic. Phaetom the guy that created the Saara Desert was also Helius son and he was a Syrian.
The Egyptians descended of Zeus (trough Epaphus son of Io), and Poseidon (trough some daughters of said Epaphus).
There's a version where Athena turned Medusa into a Gorgon to keep her safe as a variant of the Poseidon Assault.
I love it when Perseus was scanning Andromeda Zeus is just like “I’m so proud”
That Frisbee joke was epic. Great video Jake. Looking forward to the next mythology one, keep posting them on that reddit.
That frisbee joke is actually Accurate lol
I’m pretty sure it was discus though
My favorite part is where the storyteller belatedly realizes that, after giving the hero his "accomplish the quest and get the girl" bit, he still needs to shoehorn in a "oh, right, he needs to kill his pappy, b/c prophecy" subplot at the very end.
Clearly, the front and back of the story didn't get properly linked up in the first place
I love the 7 έντεκα detail on the bag lol, even if I have never seen a 7eleven in Greece
I have zero idea why this channel isn't more popular. I love these stories!!!
0:50
damn a missed opportunity to just say "And then along came Zeus!"
I like how Greeks are about Zeus' kids while Poseidon stares at the wall, creating stuff like gifts and troubles, while holding the record for the most demigods.
THIS GUY IS UNDERRATED HES SO GOOD OMG IM MAD
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I'm glad the algorithm recommended you through your RWBY animations. I honestly love Mythology Lores and your sense of humor is just my kind of thing. I'm excited to see your takes on Norse Myths and hope you can do other Pantheons in the Future such as Maya or Chinese. Keep it up man!
In love with this format !
I also like the fact that Peseus uses a GPS because he didn’t have any will of his one and just followed directions.
4:00 I want to give the biggest props for representing Andromeda and her family with dark skin to acknowledge that they live in Aethiopia.
But Aethiopia wasn't actually referring to Ethiopia was it? It was more of a general term and she was meant to be from somewhere in Northern Africa
@@thesegundovolante I'm not sure why you felt the need to bring up Ethiopia? I didn't say she was from Ethiopia.
@@thoroughlyjordan Because people from North Africa didn't have dark skin, that was subsaharan Africa, so it isn't accurate. It would have been if she had actually been from modern day Ethiopia, but she wasn't
@@thesegundovolante Aethiopia is first mentioned by Homer, and refers to the home of the Aethiopes. That word comes from the roots for "burnt" and "face" i.e. dark-skinned. Further, Herodotus defined it as all of the land South of Egypt (modern day Sudan, which is both North Africa and sub-Saharan).
Ovid did explicitly state that Andromeda was black in his version. Some other storytellers said she was from Joppa though.
"Ow, i'm a big sea monster now i'm dead blah"- 4:29
Greek Mythology has always been my favorite. People thought it was overdone so they go to Norse mythology. Well now, largely thanks to marvel Thor, Norse mythology is overdone lol.
I love the end of this myth. Its like the author completely forgot he started the thing with a "death by grandson" prophecy and then had to shoe in a way for the king to get killed. "Oh, wait, damn, that prophecy thing! Uhhhhh, I guess he accidentally domes him with a frisbee."
This was a great video, wanna clarify that first.
Okay so, the story of Medusa is actually a lot more fucked up.
So one of the more common story for this was essentially, Poseidon wanted to fuck Medusa, Medusa said no, Poseidon went after her and tried to kidnap her, Medusa ran to Athena for help. Athena said no, Poseidon RAPED Medusa, Athena didn't like that Medusa had sex and turned Medusa into the snake hair lady.
Medusa was the freaking victim in the whole story.
Actually medusa wasborn a bonified monster and was one of three gorgon sisters, the victim medusa version was by ovid i think
Yes that medusa origin was the roman version, don’t want ppl mistake the story to be her original greek origin where she was always a snake lady
Yeh I was a bit confused because of that as I know it she was raped by Poseidon
This is a version created by someone who didn't like authority and gods, so he painted them in the worst ways. Like the story od Arachne
in greek mythology she was born a gorgon
aw gosh darn these are great, also since you're gonna be doing norse mythology, i'm icelandic and also a norse myths enthusiast so please free to ask if you need help with pronunciation or anything like that
I love the fact that you drew Andoremeda as a black woman because she actually was, she was an African princess and is so annoying that she's white in every representation I've seen.
The only bad part was drawing her father like a egyptian pharaoh. She was princess of Ethiopia, damnit! Don't mix both cultures.
Gotta say, at first I was like, that can't be right when I saw it, cause Africa during that time usually referred to North Africa at that time, which especially with the Egyptian looking father as the other commenter pointed out would've just made it inaccurate, but no.
She was Ethiopian, she was genuinely black.
Yeah I just wish he gave her father the right clothes since Ethiopian royal attire is gorgeous. The royal family of Ethiopia is also pretty ancient since they’re the world’s first orthodox Christian country so their culture and clothing is pretty unique.
@@joaomartins9800 Aethiopia in ancient greece described Upper egypt & Nubia, not Abyssinia. Ethiopia is not Aethiopia, just like Mauritania is not Mauretania (morroco) and Ghana empire was not in Ghana. Aethiopia was seen as ruled from Meroe hence the Kushite style clothing.
@@asara8065 ^
Jake you've quickly become one of my favorite TH-camrs
uh so you’ll never know what I originally wrote because this was one month ago when I was somehow dumber than today 💀
There's different versions of the story. Earlier ones do state that Medusa consensually hooked up with Poseidon and later stories see her as a victim. Nowadays people accept the later versions (which is said to have started because [insert complicated greek name] hated the gods and wanted to make them seem as bad as possible) more because some seem to... romanticise the idea that Medusa was a victim who got blamed by Athena for something she didn't do... which is stupid if you ask me, but I don't make the rules.
Although tbf most women in Greek Mythology didn't really have a say in whether or not they hooked up with someone, esp a god. But still. I expect Jake used this version because getting into the subject of r&pe in a funny greek mythology video is a tasteless and kinda weird.
@@itzpurplesmixz184 in the original she was just a regular demon monster thing
Check which author made that version of the story, if it's Ovid then that would be more roman than greek
I’m so glad you mentioned this! ^^
@@themostbritishpersonalive868 yeah, she had demon siblings too
i am a fan of Greek Mythology
I too, am a fan of Greek Mythology
Eh, it's ok
3:40 best greek mythology joke with bags
it's just so nice to watch it, definitely will share it to my friends
This is what the Percy Jackson films SHOULD HAVE looked like.
YES EXACTLY
I think you mean the Peter Johnson fims.
The Books are better if you wanna try
4:09 he ie Zeus's son after all 😂
1:01 gosh when u know the reality of this scene *painful*
why?
@@doppelpunktdrei8247 Better not knowing
@@doppelpunktdrei8247 Only if u see the real myth u can understand
@@AshleyGravesreal yeah i figured but i can't find it
@@doppelpunktdrei8247 I mean sometimes the greek mythology says weird stuff
The way Zeus was watching Perseus and was proud of him, but Zeus was 100% about to swoop in for a bang but Perseus beat him to it
Facetious! Last video the word was syncretism. Im exited about learning more words during this binge-watching. Thank you Jake Doubleyoo
I love the amount of references to my series here.
I think you should do one on The 12 labors of Heracles because it's an interesting story and you make Greek mythology even more interesting
I liked the reference to Percy Jackson with the whole Medusa probably started selling lawn ornaments
This was quite charming.
Wow, I wasn’t even asking for Norse mythology but I really enjoy it so cool
PJO reference at the lawn ornament part. Love it
I love the pjo references randomly spirinkled everywhere
I love the fact that the Perseus joining sports bit sounds so ridiculous that most people think it’s a joke, and then it happens with a boulder
“Ow I’m a big sea monster and now I’m dead bleh” XDDD I DIED LOLL
you're the big sea monster lol
3:30 You know I was wondering if you were going to bring up the tooth.
“But then one day Zeus came strolling by” and we all know what happens next
4:49 Marques Brownlee cameo? Sweet. 😗
Keep up the great work love your videos!
Thank you for your videos , i love the way you tell this kind of story
I love this, super excited for the Norse vid!
Love how the lawn ornament thing is what they’re actually doing in Percy Jackson.
Actually the plate hit Acrisius’s foot, he didn’t die from the the pressure on his head. He had a panic attack which killed him as his heart was unable to pump blood.
This helped me a lot for my English homework! Thanks a lot
This was amazing you deserve more Subscribers
I like how Perseus just has plot armor even before he got his plot armor like I mean Zeus actually being an ok dad?
can't wait to see -fetus- cetus
Lol, I love how they added in "The Monkey's Paw" reference
Yes! Mythology videos!
"Hey, wanna bang"?? Best line ever. LOL
Can't wait for the Norse mythology videos.
4:22 hey thats me
Damn, you pissed off Poseidon 😂
Hey it's froggy from the OSP discord serveur, I have some general feeling on your three mythologie video so far that may or may not be usefull to you. I'll share them but I'm just some idiot on the internet so don't take them too much to heart (and feel free to just ignore them).
First off I really enjoyed watching them and overall felt that they are very good. I just had one issue watching them concerning the pacing of the script. To quote something Mark Twain never actually said "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter leter" (it's probably not the exact quote but he never said it aniway so who cares), I feel that your script in particular could use more cuting out.
In this one for exemple, the part where your remarque on the sarcasm of the intro felt very unnecessary to me, and really cut the rythm of your video. In your previous video aswell there were some part that felt like you had an idea that you really wanted to include despite the fact it didn't realy fit in the final product. I'm thinking of your ending on the Pandora video with the "and all human history ended with me" quip, which was, in and of itself, a good joke, and funny. But it also felt off compared to the rest of the script. Like for a balance, that needs to have exact same weight on either side, you might need to throw pepites of gold for the sake of equilibrium.
Also on this video in particular I think you might have want to at least briefly mention the Ovide version of the history of Medusa where she gets r*ped, because as the video gets more and more viewer you will never stop getting more and more message accusing you of victim blaming. Which, to be clear, you didn't do, but maybe only ever heard of Ovid version and won't look much farther.
You're right on the mark about the intro. I was thinking the same thing about my little titlecard tangent dragging out too long while I was animating it. But I wanted to get the video done, so I didn't wanna go back a rethink that part.
I'm a bit worried that a lot of people actually clicked off of the video before I actually got into the story.
Generally, the beginning and ending of each video are the hardest parts to write by far. Especially since I've kinda locked myself into a formula for my videos. I may need to rethink my general approach in some aspects.
As for Medusa, I wanted to avoid getting into the subject of her abuse because that's not something I want to joke about on my channel.
At the same time though, I realize that it's not a good idea to just cover up any aspect of history that makes people uncomfortable. I'm planning to start making vlog-style videos where I talk about the stuff I've learned about mythology in the process of making my videos. The horrendous misogyny of many Ancient Greek societies, as evident in their folklore, will absolutely be something I touch on in one of those videos.
@@JakeDoubleyoo if you've never watched it the podcast Cortex by CGP grey and Mike Hurley is definitely for you. They discuss how they work and as you probably know grey is very successful youtubeur who's main obstacle, according to him is writing scripts. There's definitely stuff for you there, even in the first few episodes.
I wouldn't be too worried about people living early, I've always heard from content creator that average graph always as a drop at the beginning as the people who change their mind leave.
In the older myths Medusa and her sisters were born that way, as the children of primordial sea deities, but unlike her sisters medusa wasn't immortal
The story I know was that he was looking where she's at with just the mirror and chopped her head and not that he was invisible. Great video tho loved it. Might have been a different version since there are many out there.
this video is a mix of the original telling and Ovid's telling from his Metamorphoses
Man pulled the most hidden Oddesy pun ever by zooming out when it said Nobody.
2:40
“And [Madusa] probably started a lucrative career selling lawn ornaments or something”
Hmm, where have I heard that idea before…
"But then one day Zeus comes strolling by!"
I haven't even watched the full video and I already know what's going to happen.
Man only one minute in the video and you made me cracked with the zeus one💀✋
As a person who knows these myths inside out I love watching this kind of stuff because it just makes me laugh
i love your videos sm pls they make it so fun
"aa I'm a big seamonster and now I'm dead" this should be the new canon mythology
I like how Zeus seen Perseus "do the Zeus" and "was so proud".
2:40 I see what you did there.
This channel is nothing but FUCKING GLORIOUS!
I like the thumbnail detail. Gives Perseus the sea green eyes like Percy Jackson has
Pays good homage
That reference in the beginning was pretty dam good.
This was really nostalgic
I used this as a source for one of my finals! (No, this isn't the only one and had multiple other sites backing up the information in this video, I'm using this as one of the sources because it was one of the only reason I even know about Perseus' tale)
I can't tell if the percy Jackson reference was intended
BUT I would definitely buy from Medusa
i love these i have to learn about greek gods again and these just make it seem fun
I literally have seen all the videos of medusa, but i must say this one is the funniest
These are SO cliff notes. . . but also really funny.
i love how there is a Percy Jackson reference of the lawn ornaments
2:59 Dang it, Hydreigon!
AN interesting thing I heard once was that the "Shower of gold" could be a metaphor meaning a guy came in throwing a lot of money around to bribe the guards for some banging time.
I loved this
The sea monster is the greatest character here
Such a mood
Nice Percy Jackson reference at 2:43
Ooh can you please do a story on Theseus
-SPOILER WARNING-
guy who found sandals & sword under a boulder (his dad buried them) lifted it, decided to meet his father and on the way killed some (supposed) killers, got to his fathers kingdom, nearly got posioned but his father recognised the sandals and saved him
Then he went to fight the minotaur, forgot to change the sails on his ship so his father commited unaliving himself, abandoned the very same princess who helped him survive the minotaur in the first place (but she ended up marrying Dyonisis so she had a happy ending).
Bonus: He kidnapped a ten year old child, the queen of the amazons & helped his friend to kidnap Phersephone (you know, WHOS HUSBAND IS THE GOD OF THE DEAD)
Perseus had a Zeus moment: like father like son.
Came from Lolirock up to The Owl House and Amphibia to Mythology.
His dad really did die in an "ultimate frisbee" game it was basically exactly how, if I remember correctly he had to go through some more shit as penance for accidentally killing his dad
The Percy Jackson reference about her selling lawn stuff which is kinda cool cause Percy’s real name is Perseus
"Oh don't worry about it just go on an extremely dangerous quest to go fetch the gorgan medusas head."
A bit of correction for medusa, it was found out that medusa was actually ummm *forcefully* hooked up with Poseidon, she went into the temple of athens hoping she could be protected by Poseidon. But the rest is history
Thats also not true if you get that from the poet ovid (who was roman i might add) in the theogony (a work done by an actual greek poet) medusa is 1 of 3 gorgon sister that predate the gods
Ovid also had deep personal issues that seemed to translate into his writing, so I wouldn't trust that source
Damn dude youre hilarious. subscribed. Monkey paw bit got me.
Your medusa origin is incorrect. You kinda combined two conflicting myths. One of which was written in about the 1800s AD as a sort of Christianization of the Medusa myth, where she was a priestess of Athena who was raped by Poseidon and punished by Athena for breaking her vow of abstinence, and one was the original story which saw Medusa being born as a gorgon with two sisters.
There is no "official" Greek Mythology, but the latter Medusa story is generally the 'Correct' telling
I based Medusa's origin off of Ovid's Metamorphoses, who to be fair was Roman and probably came up with the story himself. (Though I did also like the original idea that her and her sisters were still born as monsters with snake hair, so I kept that in too) I sometimes cheat and go for non-greek sources if it helps create a more compelling narrative. But I'm not aware of any elements I took from a version so recent as the 1800's. Can you elaborate?
@@JakeDoubleyoo mightve gotten just a little bit mixed up there, it was like 4am, i think i was thinking about "Prometheus Bound" which was early 1900s
Nah, Prometheus Bound was written by Aeschylus (probably) around 450 BC
@@JakeDoubleyoo Damn, i know theres at least one collection of Greek Myths that have been distilled at some point in the late 19th century and early 20th. Either way, the original story of Medusa goes one way, a later retelling goes another, you combined both. Nothing wrong with that, but it might confuse people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fellow mythology nerds: both recognizing how squishy and tangled “canon” can be while still loving it too much to not try :P
“Making and selling lawn ornaments”
Auntie Em’s gnome emporium