Medusa

I was born blessed by Aphrodite. Such otherworldly beauty and grace I possessed. When women saw me they would fly into jealous fits, throw stones at my innocent body. When men saw me they took me, they had me, ignoring my unhinged screeches. I once knew a man, a God, he came from the sea. He came upon me while I prayed to Athena, kneeling before marble feet, he raped me and left me on the temple steps. Bruised and bleeding. The fire and thunder of Athena came to me that night, how dare I defile her temple with filthy sex? Was Olympus deaf to my cries for help or just wilfully ignorant? I awoke a creature of hate, a monster, with hissing snakes for hair. I ran into the street, leaving behind a village of stone men. I carried a demigod in my belly, up into the mountain caves where I could harm no more. After many months of solitude they found me, they slew me, punished for my ghastlty appearance. And I am the evil one?