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RE-AIR: We Love a Complex Woman Living Through the Trojan War, Euripides' Helen
FromLet's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold
RE-AIR: We Love a Complex Woman Living Through the Trojan War, Euripides' Helen
FromLet's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold
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Length:
120 minutes
Released:
Dec 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
With Iphigenia Among the Taurians so fresh in our minds, I want to revisit another odd, foreign, mistaken identity, escape plan play... What if Helen of Sparta was never taken by Paris, never brought to Troy at all? Euripides' Helen explores a "ghost theory" of Helen, an eidolon theory. This is all four parts of the Helen series in one episode.
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
Sources: The Greek Plays, new translations edited by Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm: Euripides' Helen translated by Emily Wilson; Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz. Thanks to Ash Strain for researching the play.
Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
Sources: The Greek Plays, new translations edited by Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm: Euripides' Helen translated by Emily Wilson; Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz. Thanks to Ash Strain for researching the play.
Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Dec 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
XVII: Heracles (Hercules) the Gospel Truth (Heracles Part Two): A lot more work and a lot less fun than Disney has you believe. by Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold