Ep 030 - Medea, by Euripides

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What's there to enjoy about a 2400-year-old tragedy? Is it the ekkyklemas? The god-chariots? Or is it the protagonist so wounded by her husband's actions that she's driven to commit atrocities only Breaking Bad's willing to put on TV?

What if there's nothing to enjoy? Maybe that's why Euripides received third prize out of three when he submitted Medea to the annual Athenian theater festival in 431 BCE. Join us this week as we debate the tragedy's merits, bumble our Greek vocabulary, and make the obligatory Tyler Perry joke.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:05.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.0	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	You didn't go to Santa Fe, you went to San Jose.
0:38.0	I went to San Jose, yeah, they rhyme, but there that does not make them the same place.
0:43.0	I, honestly, did not.
0:45.0	In my head, you were in one of the four corner states the whole time.
0:51.0	I think I thought you were in Santa Fe the whole time.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	Why were you in San Jose?
0:59.0	Because iPhones, I got to see, I got to see them introduce new iPhones.
1:05.0	Well, that's good.
1:06.0	Elvis Costello was there.
1:08.0	Okay, I wanted, I didn't want to learn about phones.
1:10.0	I wanted to learn about other things that happened.
1:11.0	What did Elvis Costello do?
1:13.0	He played at the thing and then, okay, so I was standing after the little keynote,
1:18.0	they have a room off to the side where, you know, people can go and play with the new stuff.
1:23.0	And so I'm playing with the new stuff and I'm taking pictures because I'm there for work, of course.
1:27.0	And like I look up and there's Elvis Costello, like looking around to see if there's a phone free.
1:33.0	And did he look at you?
1:35.0	Yeah, he did.
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