052 - Early Euripides

In this episode, we discuss the life, innovations, and works of the third great Athenian playwright, Euripides; and we discuss the historicity and some of the major themes of his earliest surviving plays--Cyclops, Rhesus, Alcestis, Medea, and Hippolytus

Primary Sources:

Text/Euripides' Cyclops

Text/Euripides' Rhesus

Text/Euripides' Alcestis

Text/Euripides' Medea

Text/Euripides' Hippolytus

Supplementary Resources (Videos, Photos, Other Podcasts)

Photo/Statuette of Seated Euripides

Photo/Vase Painting of Cyclops and Satyrs

Photo/Vase Painting of Odysseus and Diomedes Stealing Horses of Rhesus

Video/How Admetus Avoided Death (Monarchs Factory)

Photo/Roman Fresco of Admetus and Alcestis at Pompeii

Video/Jason and the Golden Fleece (Penn Museum)

Video/The Myth of Jason and the Argonauts (TED-Ed)



Video/The Golden Fleece and the Origin of Aries (Monarchs Factory)
Video/Argonauts Assemble (Monarchs Factory)
Video/Jason and the Argonauts, Voyage to Colchis (Monarchs Factory)
Video/Jason's Trial for the Golden Fleece (Monarchs Factory)
Video/Jason & The Argonauts Escape (Monarchs Factory)

Audio/Conversing The Classics: Episode 5 - Medea

Video/Medea (Millenial Classicist)

Photo/Roman Fresco of Medea and Children at Pompeii

Photo/Vase Painting of Medea Stabbing her Child

Photo/Vase Painting of Medea on Helios' Chariot

Video/Hippolytus (Millenial Classicist)

Photo/Renaissance Sculpture of Hippolytus' Crash

Recommended Podcast Episodes:

***Deviant Women Podcast - Medea
***Literature and History Ep 33 Euripides' Medea
***Myths and Legends Ep 46A Jason and the Argonauts: Some Assembly Required
***Myths and Legends Ep 46B Jason and the Argonauts: MacGuffin
***Myths and Legends Ep 46C Jason and the Argonauts: The Long Way Home
***Myths and Legends Ep 46D Jason and the Argonauts: Scorned

***MythTake Ep 01 Medea