Hijack: Someone’s apparently never played “City of Villains.” where she’s the matriarch of a race of snake-people. Until now I didn’t realize that she was based on an actual myth, so thank you.
In a feeble attempt to salvage some gamer credibility, I will mention that the name of the card from the AD&D (1e DMG) Deck of Many Things that instantly petrifies the person who draws it and is described as having a “Medusa-like visage” is Euryale.
Stheno and Euryale also made an appearance in the Kindly Ones arc in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, in which they attempted to convince Lyta Hall to take the place of their missing sister.
Just like the same myth as told in a comic book or graphic novel, will differ from the version in a TV show, an animated movie, or a live-action movie. The modern myths aren’t really so very different from the ancient ones.
And @Love_Rhombus , I was going to mention that, too
Quite right.
I illustrate the idea in the first chapter of Medusa using Superman.
Heck, the idea of eternal reward doesn’t sound great either, in my opinion. Doomed to always exist in a land of heavenly delights, but alongside the same people doing the same things over and over forever? Eternal pain, eternal joy, how could eternal anything not inevitably lead to eternal boredom?
Exactly the point Mark Twain made many years ago
Among other things, he pointed out that most people can’t sing to save their lives, yet publicly believed in an afterlife of perpetual hymn-singing. And an afterlife that left out SEX!