Did Medusa seduce Poseidon or did he rape her?

No, she was mad at him and she was a goddess and he was a god, but she dint consider a human, even one that worshipped her, worthy. Poseidon was a god and that's just what gods do, what got her mad was that it was in her temple and she blamed Medusa. Just like rape victims get blamed today. read more

Good question. Some translations of Ovid’s version explicitly say that he raped her, but others are ambiguous. Greek Mythology, Greek Goddesses from Metamorphoses by Ovid Tracy Marks. Unfortunately, the Latin word used, vitiasse, can mean “defiled”, “sexually violated”, or “damaged”. It doesn’t necessarily mean “rape”, but it can. read more

But then Zeus are beyond the lines, he trying to rape medusa. And then medusa ran away and came to the temple of athena. She pray to athena, and ask for a help. That he didnt want zeus, and asking athena to save her when zeus were trying to rape her. But athena didnt help her. And finally, zeus rape her there, in the temple of athena. read more

Another point: it is important for the reader to grasp that Poseidon was never punished for what he did. The only one who was punished was Medusa. Athena never tried to curse him or call him out for what he did to Medusa. Athena saw it as: Medusa was the target to blame, since she was so beautiful and attention-grabbing. read more