842 Medea (with Edith Hall)
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RSS Feed The Greek tragedian Euripides gave the world perhaps the most villainous woman ever created: Medea, the scorned wife who murders her own children. But can we trace this mythological figure back to a real-life historical woman who migrated to Greece in the late Bronze Age? In this episode, Jacke talks to one of Britain's foremost classicists, Edith Hall, about her book Medea: A Life, which draws upon meticulous research to construct a biography of a woman navigating the violent patriarchies of the ancient Mediterranean - and questions whether the figure long regarded as an abhorrent psychopath should instead be viewed as a brilliant, embattled outsider pushed to extremes.
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