Why the Greek Gods Created Their Worst Monsters (Untold Story)

Six of the twelve were born monsters. Six of them were people first - a woman punished by a goddess for something that was done to her, a girl who was better at weaving than a god, a nymph poisoned by a jealous witch, a king who asked the wrong question at dinner. Every one of them was made by a god. And then a hero was sent to kill the thing the god had made. CHAPTERS 0:00 Six Born, Six Made 0:54 The Mother of All Monsters 1:09 The Ones Who Were Always Monsters 1:33 The Riddler on the Rock 1:41 What Walks on Four Legs in the Morning 2:12 She Was Somebody Else's Weapon 3:05 Now the Other Six 3:11 The Most Famous Monster Was Not Born One 3:46 The Weaver Who Beat a Goddess 4:22 The Girl Who Became a Whirlpool 4:47 The Child in the Maze 5:16 Seven Boys and Seven Girls 5:53 The Pattern Nobody Names 6:33 Go Back to the Original Greek 7:15 The Greeks Wrote Monsters, the Romans Wrote Victims 7:54 Six Born, Six Made, No God Punished ANCIENT SOURCES - separated by tradition, because that is the whole point GREEK (older): Hesiod, Theogony 270-336 - the family of monsters: Typhon, Echidna, the Hydra, Cerberus, the Chimera, the Sphinx Hesiod, Theogony 274-281 - Medusa born a Gorgon, one of three sisters, with no curse and no temple Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.5.8 - the Sphinx and her riddle Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.1.4 - the bull, the curse on Pasiphae, and the labyrinth Homer, Odyssey 12 - Scylla and Charybdis in the strait ROMAN (later, and this is where the victims appear): Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.794-803 - Medusa as a woman before she was a Gorgon Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.1-145 - Arachne and the weaving contest Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.1-74 - Scylla poisoned by Circe Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.209-239 - Lycaon turned into a wolf The idea that a monster used to be a person is largely Roman. Hesiod's monsters are simply born that way. Both traditions are named on camera where they differ. THE ZEUS ARC Part 1 - The War: https://youtu.be/3RltXvfXj6c Part 2 - The Monster That Almost Ended Him: https://youtu.be/0Vnat6UowDY Part 3 - The Gods He Buried Alive: https://youtu.be/Sy_tGnXfMfo Part 4 - The God Who Ate His Own Wife: https://youtu.be/NhMVhsy63rA MORE Medusa - The Untold Crime That Created Her: https://youtu.be/B3iPGQxcvzE Perseus - The Boy Who Killed Medusa: https://youtu.be/IbaS7CKGOvc Cassandra - The Most Chilling Curse in Greek History: https://youtu.be/d0X5m4nDu9k Helen of Troy - They Burned a City for Her: https://youtu.be/UPgjB_qULEo All ten stories in one: https://youtu.be/pH1eVAFr5YA Which of the twelve do you think was treated worst? Tell me below. Subscribe for more Greek mythology. Business: [email protected] #GreekMythology #Medusa #Minotaur #GreekMonsters #Hydra #Cerberus #Sphinx #Ovid #Hesiod #MortalMyths