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Medusa, one of the Gorgons, seduced by Neptune, who’s head represented the polar extremes of beauty and horror. She was the one of the villains of the western scene, except, in this scenario she is dressed in different costume that you would normally see in a John Wayne film. When Perseus and Medusa meet like all common plot and end of a heroic movies or scenes our Perseus slashes off her head, to which he will eventually use to destroy the sea monster. Ovid describes this scene;

The as the beast rolled its soft belly open,

Or bared its neck, his crowded sword struck in:

At back grown tough with sea-wet barnacles,

At flanks, or at the thin and fishlike tail.

The beast began to vomit purple spew,

And Perseus, wings, damp with salt spray, grew heavy;

He saw a rock that pierced the shifting waters

As they stilled, now curtained by the riding

Of the waves, and leaped to safety on it.

He struck his sword three times and then again into the dragons bowels.

Perseus, with his heroic talented gifts defeats the dragon and saves the chained girl and walks away triumphantly in the eyes of the spectators, which Ovid states:

Even the highest balconies of heave,

From which the gods looked down on Perseus,

Rang with great cheers; Chepheus and his wife,

Cassiope, called to their hero as a gallant

Bridegroom who saved the glory of their house.

And now the girl, chains dropped away stepped forward,

The cause for which he fought and his reward.

Similarly, the western scenario is the same you have your hero and villain about to defend and fight each other for the prize of survival and self dignity. In some context you could say that Charles Darwin’s notion that due to the social disapproval of asocial behavior is a cause for these individuals to perform in such manner. Usually, after battle you will find that only one will survive, leaving either the hero or the villain to praise in the arena of violence. These two scenes presented by Ovid lead us to similar comparisons of that of the West.

For example, after our hero wins the fight, he then walks back into the saloon, there the spectators and the heroes drink from the bar-or now it would be wine and feast on the fruitful sacrifices or food prepared-and discus future events. As we enter the inner soul of the saloon more characters come into the scene.

Another possibility is that our gods was ridding his winged horse through town when he happened to see a poor innocent beautiful woman, whose beauty struck him with courageous valor. He dashes to her rescue where she is tied up to twenty barrels of dynamite in the center of the tracks, and a three-hundred ton passenger train narrowing the time of doom.

Another scenario that can describe our god is the common version. The local villain abducts local beautiful girl, and what a coincidence. Guess who happens to be near by on his flying horse? Perseus, from the distance sees this awful conditions the villain is inflicting onto his soon to be bride or love. He dashes down wipes out the villain and walks triumphantly with his dignity and new woman through the crowd of spectators advertising his hubris world.

The last is the scenario is where you have the local town fight. A fight which bursts out into the streets with intensity from the saloon, and spectators gathered outside to see the showdown. However, the hero outnumbered by 10 to 1 gets help from Athena, and the head of the serpent woman Medusa. Within minutes our hero triumphantly devours everyone and walks back into the saloon where he will take his seat next to Jove at the card table of the gods. Meanwhile, the spectators pick up the remains of the deceased or mourn for their loved ones. Common sense and responsibility of any common moral western citizen is written in stone; Don not mess with the best, for if you do, you die like the rest.

Inside the saloon we have Media, daughter of Aeetes, King of Colchis; seduced by Jason, reminds me of a head mistress of the saloon. Ovid presents her as an enchantress and a worshipper of Hecate, the goddess of night. In my perspective this character is deadly in her own domain, as if she was the black widow and the saloon was her web. To the men who disrespect and deceive her ways or rules end up dead. Amongst the gods she would be feared by some or wanted by others in the saloon. Then you have Europe, who was one of the daughters of Tyrians girls. Europa, stands out as a mortal who Jove desired, and like a pimp seduced her and put her on the payroll-after taking her into his possession, that is sex-of the immortal woman’s rooster. Women in the Mythological era and Western were treated unfairly and viewed as unequal in value, and purposes.

In the west your common woman was viewed in several aspects. First, the woman could appear as a loving Christian mother who tends the home by: cooking, cleaning, knitting, and finally becoming the baby factory. This type of character was rarely seen through Ovid in such context as the Western setting and character. However, the male gods did have their wives at home, but at times the bed was not always shared by that one man. Sometimes the child was born from different fathers and mothers than that of the actual marriage.

The second type of woman was dirty, savage looking and wore her holsters, chewing on her tobacco herding cows, on a strong sturdy horse. More or less, she was your local woman with brass balls, or a “Tom boy.” This character would best describe Athena. Even though she is seen as a beautiful figure who takes the breath and sight of many, she appears in a different perspective. Athena, if provoked can turn into you local Tom Boy, by kicking the

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