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Nov 2019
29m 37s

Medea, See How She Flies, Witchy Woman

Liv Albert
About this episode

She's back! We continue on with the re-telling of the story of Medea, a woman who is badass, powerful, and misunderstood. She and Jason return to Iolchus, and more shit goes down.

 

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

 

Sources: Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Allen Mandelbaum; Apollonios Rhodis' Argonautica, translated by Peter Green; Mythology by Edith Hamilton.

 

Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.


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