GAZİANTEP ZEUGMA MOZAİK MÜZESİ

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İşte olaylar örgüsünün zincirleme uzayıp gitiği bir öykü... Yunan mitolojisinde
hikayeler hikayelere bağlanır ve zaman zaman birbirinin
içine geçer. Perseus’un öyküsünde olduğu gibi... Medusa adı bu olaylar
örgüsünün bir köşesinde karşımıza çıkar. Özetleyelim: Argos Kralı Akrisios,
doğacak torununun günün birinde kendisini öldüreceğini öğrenir.
Kızı Danae’nın bir oğlu olunca, onu ve torunu Perseus’u bir sandığa
koyarak denize attırır. İyi yürekli balıkçı Diktys ve karısı tarafından
kurtarılan ana-oğul onlarla birlikte yıllarca yaşar. Balıkçının kardeşi ve
o ülkenin kralı olan Polydektes, Danae ile evlenmek ister ve hazırlıklar
başlar. Haliyle evlenmek üzere olan krala hediye vermek gerekir ama
gelgelelim Perseus’un verecek bir şeyi yoktur. Aklına kralın ‘dünyada
en çok istediği şeyin bir Gorgon başı’ olduğu gelir ve krala Gorgon
Promised head
Here is a story extending in length as the intertwined chain of events
develops... In Greek mythology, stories are linked to each other and
get often intermingled. Such is the case of Perseus’ story in which
Medusa’s tragedy appears as an episode at a certain juncture. The
story of Perseus develops as follow: Akrisios, King of Argos learns
that his grandchild to be born would kill him one day. When his
daughter Danae gives birth to a son, he locks his daughter and his
grandson Perseus in a trunk which is thrown into the sea. A goodhearted
fisher Diktys and his wife save Danae and Perseus from their
trunk and the two live together with the fisher’s family for many
years. The brother of Diktys, Polydektes, who is the king of Seriphos,
decides to marry Danae and preparations are being made for their
wedding. Perseus must give a wedding present to the king but he
has nothing. The king tells him that what he wants the most is the
head of Medusa, the only mortal of the three Gorgon sisters...
Perseus leaves to fetch the Gorgon’s head for offering it to King
Polydektes as a gift. In his conquest, he receives a mirrored shield
from Athena, winged sandals from Hermes, a sword, and Hades ‘cap
of invisibility. Athena points out Medusa in her sleep to Perseus, as
being the only one of the three Gorgons who is mortal, and Perseus
is able to slay her with the sword he received from Hermes, while
looking at the reflection from the mirrored shield he received from
Athena, thus avoiding to be turned into stone, and places the head
in his magic case. The two other immortal Gorgon sisters, Stheno
and Euryale wake up to their sister’s screaming and begin to chase
Perseus who puts on the cap of invisibility he received from Hades
and disappears. Angry, the Gorgons return to their island. Medusa
dies but Perseus’ story continues. According to a different version,
Perseus uses Medusa’s head as a weapon until he gives it to the
goddess Athena who decorates her shield with it. There is also one
version according to which, Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon when
Perseus beheaded her, and that Pegasus, the winged horse, and
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