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
Trưng Sisters as evidence of women's stature, the actual phrase in Vietnamese is ""Giặc đến nhà, đàn bà cũng đánh"" (When the enemy troops came to the house, the woman also went to fight the enemy), which means that fighting in war is inappropriate for women and that it is only when the situation is so desperate that war has spread to their home that women should enter the war. Trưng Sisters The Trưng sisters (Vietnamese: "Hai Bà Trưng", literally "Two Ladies [named] Trưng", AD 12 – c. AD 43) were Vietnamese military leaders who ruled for three years after rebelling in