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Medusa and poseidon6/22/2023 ![]() Over the past several weeks, I've gotten many nervous "7 weeks until bikini time," "4 weeks until bikini season," "2 weeks until I have to be in a bikini," "I'm not going to the beach or any pool parties this summer" texts from several different friends. Main stream media has begun to include all body types in modeling and advertisement campaigns, but yet there's a sense of not feeling good enough still lingering in the air. Summer is the warmest and most fun season, but it can also easily be the most stressful season for anyone who suffers from body image issues. Whenever I give a tour of my town I never leave out the village or the colleges because they’re such a huge part of what makes my town so special. In fact, Claremont is known as a college town because of how college centered it is (so much so we actually named a lot of our streets after famous colleges). They all have their own personalities despite not having any distinct borders separating them. They’re all very distinguished, both in their reputation as educational institutions and their campus. They’re known as the Five-C’s (The Five Claremont Colleges): Pomona, McKenna, Scripps, Pitzer, and Harvey Mudd. What also contributes heavily to the grandeur of the city is the fact that it’s the home of five very prestigious colleges. You’ll rarely find the restaurants and shopping attractions anywhere else. It has a village that’s filled with unique, privately managed businesses that further add to the uniqueness of the overall city. Nevertheless its beauties are unbound by the restrictions of descriptive words as they do it no justice. Instead, I push through, and I hope you can too.Ĭlaremont is about an hour or so away from L.A. ![]() It's still there, though, and I can't change that because someone thinks it makes me unfit for a job. ![]() I never chose to struggle with depression. I highly doubt anyone would have singled me out and tried to get me kicked out of the CMC program. I assume the comment was made with good intentions. ![]() These struggles do not have to stop you, and don't listen to anyone that tells you differently. I fought every day to be better than my depression threatened to make me. I finished out the year as CMC and made several memories that could last me a lifetime. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't succeed because you struggle with depression. Because of that, I was apparently not fit for the CMC position according to this person. I never hid what my struggle was from anyone. I was very forthright with this fact to my floor. Despite this, I've kept going, pushing through so that I could help others who struggle. In this section of the book, Ovid gives a completely different origin story for the terrifying creature.As I've alluded to several times in this blog, I have a long-standing battle with depression that has made life a living hell at times. However, there is evidence that the myth changed drastically over time.Īround 8 AD, Ovid-a Roman poet celebrated for his faithful retelling of popular Greek myths-produced his famous Metamorphoses, an expansive book of myths which includes the myth of Perseus and his slaying of Medusa. In these earlier myths then, it’s assumed that Medusa was born a monster-complete with snakes and stony vision. He also describes a key difference between Medusa and her two sisters, one that becomes extremely important later: Medusa, unlike the other two gorgons (and for reasons not explained), is fully mortal. He calls them Stheno (“the mighty”), Euryale (“the wide wandering” or “the far springer”), and finally, Medusa (“the cunning one” or “the queen”). Hesiod, in his Theogony (700 BCE), describes the gorgons as three sister-monsters born of Phorcys and Ceto, two primordial ocean deities. It isn’t until several years later that another author gives the gorgon more of a backstory. In the Odyssey, the gorgon is a briefly mentioned inhabitant of the underworld-one whom Persephone could apparently “sic” on anyone who angered her.
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