Medusa wore the snake's cloth. stheno his sister, the male hydra, euryale the female hydra and finally aglauros the owl. even if he governed almost the entirety of Attica. Poseidon was not satisfied. he wanted to humiliate Athena.

he tried to seduce the eldest saintia, medusa, but she, faithful to athena, refused him. then he pursued her with his assiduities. Medusa took refuge in the acropolis to pray to Athena but Poseidon didn't care, he raped her on Athena's altar.

Medusa survived but became pregnant. after aegean, athena could not let another bastard poseidon come into the world. Medusa begged her not to take the life of her child at birth. She tried with her sisters to escape while Athena cursed them. Gorgons, monsters, that’s what they would be forever.