Oh hi hello nerds, thank you all for joining in. This is Let's Talk About Myths Baby, and I'm your host Liv.

As I mentioned last week, I'm back here again with Part 2 of Medea's most epic post-argonautica moments.

I absolutely love these episodes that I got to do back in 2019, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to remind you all of these parts of the story,

and well to continue to give myself a break so that I can recuperate from some epic jet lag and start writing more episodes with a bit less time pressure.

What a concept, honestly it's the dream.

So in today's re-aired episode, Medea's anger for Jason explodes in the most dark and fucked up way.

Because this is Medea, we're talking about.

This is episode 67, Woman Survivor Murderer, Ribbodiesist Medea.

Where we last left Medea, she'd done some pretty horrible things to Pelius and his daughters, but she'd also flown around the world on a dragon drawn chariot collecting ingredients like the super cool fucking woman that she is.

So I mean I'm a fan.

I should say to the dragon chariot at the beginning like that, that's from Avid, you should pretend when it comes to me reading this Euripides part that you just didn't know about it because it was shocking for Euripides audience.

But yes, so Pelius sent Jason on the quest for the Golden Fleece in the first place, a quest that was absolutely supposed to kill Jason, and would have if not for Medea.

Pelius is no saint, what I'm saying is it's fine that she helped kill him. His daughters probably didn't deserve what happened though.

Medea and Jason have traveled to Corinth one way or another and settled there. They have two sons together and they're happy for a while, a few years at least, before Jason gets restless.

Jason grows more and more aware that the woman he's married is not one of them, she's not Greek.

Medea and Jason live in Corinth for a time happily were led to believe, but eventually that changes, and that is how Euripides begins his play, the best play.

The play opens by humanizing Medea, her nurse, and so a woman opens the play by lamenting that any of this ever started in the first place.

She wishes that Jason had never sailed on the Argo, had never reached Colchis, that Medea had never gone with him. None of this would have happened, Medea wouldn't have killed Pelius, and they would not have ended up in Corinth.

This play would have been performed in Athens, at the festival held annually where playwrights would have their plays performed and would compete with one another for first, second, and third prize.

So Athenians watched this, and Athenians had their own opinions of Corinth. That city itself was foreign to these Athenians because remember Greece was not a unified place.

They were all Hellenic people, but they were all very separate and not always appreciative of one another.

So this in itself would have been a foreign story about foreigners, and then Medea would have been a foreigner in that foreign city.

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