Far-Stepper/Of Wide Sea their peace is shattered by the arrival of Zeus. As a challenge from the gods, Zeus hunts and kills Stheno in front of her sister before fleeing the island with the Gorgon's severed head. Seeing her only love die leaves Euryale distraught, and she spends the next thousand years mourning the loss of her sister, while taking revenge on man by luring and eating them. The second act is told primarily in third person, but features sections from the perspectives of Euryale, Medusa and Poseidon. After centuries alone below Mount Olympus, Euryale witnesses her deity parents Phorcys and Ceto return
Greek mythology in western art and literature for all things Greek, including Greek mythology. In Britain, it was a great period for new translations of Greek tragedies and Homer's works, and these in turn inspired contemporary poets, such as Keats, Byron, and Shelley. The Hellenism of Queen Victoria's poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, was such that even his portraits of the quintessentially English court of King Arthur are suffused with echoes of the Homeric epics. The visual arts kept pace, stimulated by the purchase of the Parthenon marbles in 1816; many of the "Greek" paintings of Lord Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema were seriously accepted as part of