Hello and welcome back to Chronicles, where today we're going to be talking all about Medea by Euripides, where once again, I'm delighted to be joined by

Stelios. Hello, everyone. Thanks, Brother Luca, for inviting me about this.

We are going to have a good time.

Yes. Today's a good day. Well, we always do. We always do. Today is a good day also.

And I'm really glad you mentioned we did Euripides.

Euripides has a sort of weird reputation, especially by those who read Nietzsche.

Because Nietzsche in the birth of tragedy in the very beginning, sort of trashes him.

Yes.

He says he destroyed tragedy. But you reignited my passion for Euripides.

Oh good, good, good, good. Honestly, it's just, Nietzsche is completely wrong.

I disagree with Nietzsche on this as well. So one thing we need to talk about is, of course, the fact that this comes not entirely off the back.

In fact, if you're just, like, if you're following these week to week, it might seem a little strange to just have that random blip in the middle talking about King Charles III. But I just wanted to do something to just kind of like shift it along a bit. But we meant to revisit this, didn't we? And obviously, we'll want to do it whilst the Argonautica is still very fresh in our minds,

and whilst we've still, you know, recently explored that journey. So question, are you saying

that the episode you did on King Charles isn't an episode about the events after the, after

Jason goes back to Ayolcus? Shockingly not. Shockingly not. No.

Good to know.

But there is another point to all of this as well, which is that, yes, Medea, the play

by Euripides chronologically, takes place after the tale of Jason and the Argonauts, of course.

It is in that tale where we first meet Medea, where she is the daughter of Iatis, who is the,

who rules as this divine king of Colchis over on the far end of the Black Sea, you know,

far at the ages of the known world, and he himself is the son of the son of the son, the son of the sun god Helios.

And so he has a great amount of divine power and authority.

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