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🗓️ 8 September 2021
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Some believe Eurpides' play ends with Iphigenia walking to her sacrifice, but there's an epilogue that may or may not have been written by the tragedian.
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: Iphigenia at Aulis, versions translated by Coleridge and Cecelia Eaton Lushnig; Earth Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz; Theoi.com. Special thanks to Ash Strain for their help researching this episode! Follow Ash on Twitter: @ashstrain_.
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0:30.0 | Oh hi hello what's this? |
0:34.0 | am I here with a bonus episode about if I can I add Alice? |
0:39.2 | This is Let's Talk About Myths Baby, and I am Liv, the woman who loves Yeripides so |
0:44.1 | much she just couldn't bear to mar the ending of epic if I can I add Alice episodes |
0:49.4 | with this epilogue that is almost certainly an invention, not of Yeripides. |
0:53.6 | That's right, if I can add Alice, at least in some forms, has a whole additional epilogue, |
1:00.7 | a whole extra chunk after what I gave you all yesterday. |
1:05.2 | I didn't want to leave it out entirely, so it felt fitting to present it as a bonus |
1:09.1 | episode, plus I had already reached almost 7000 words on yesterday's episode, so it wasn't |
1:14.3 | going to fit regardless. |
1:16.3 | Now smarter people than me can debate whether this episode was written by Yeripides, but |
1:22.4 | I'm going with probably not. |
1:25.2 | As I mentioned to you all at the beginning of this series, if I can add Alice was Yeripides's |
1:29.5 | last play, written in the year of his death and not performed on stage until after he |
1:34.4 | had died. |
1:35.4 | Thus, bits of it are debated as to whether or not he actually wrote them. |
1:39.6 | Maybe he finished the play and others added in bits and pieces, editorial style, maybe |
1:45.1 | he had entirely finished but whoever was planning to stage it after his death didn't |
1:49.4 | think he'd finished it or wanted a different ending and thus wrote this epilogue. |
1:55.0 | For me, yesterday's episode is the exact right way to end it, and it feels the most |
2:00.0 | like Yeripides. |
2:01.0 | It's very back-eye, very medea, to have these epic and fascinating characters make their |
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