Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons her paralyzing stare). He is successful because although Medusa hates Athena's daughter, Annabeth Chase, she still loves Poseidon (Percy's father). In "The Son of Neptune", her sisters Stheno and Euryale are servants of Gaea intent on killing Percy in retaliation for his murder of their sister. In "The Mark of Athena", the Gorgons' parents (Phorcys and Keto) and Medusa's son (Chrysaor) are antagonists. The Gorgon is Natasi Daala's flagship in Kevin J. Anderson's "Jedi Academy Trilogy". In S.J Kinciad's "Insignia" series, Medusa, the code-name for a Russo-Chinese Combatant, is used as a description for the girl behind the name. The
Greek mythology theology (which also affect the interpretation of Virgil). In Saturnalia reappear mythographical comments influenced by the Euhemerists, the Stoics and the Neoplatonists. The genesis of modern understanding of Greek mythology is regarded by some scholars as a double reaction at the end of the eighteenth century against "the traditional attitude of Christian animosity", in which the Christian reinterpretation of myth as a "lie" or fable had been retained. In Germany, by about 1795, there was a growing interest in Homer and Greek mythology. In Göttingen, Johann Matthias Gesner began to revive Greek studies, while his successor, Christian Gottlob Heyne, worked