Autocrat- A Roman History Podcast

41- Medea's Revenge

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You either die a hero... or you're Jason. Let's watch the wheels come off the wagon off Jason's cart as he angers a powerful sorceress by marrying princess Glauce behind her back. Expect violence, murder and a wild life the hosts were very excited to tell each other about!


Content warning: It's Medea, so we're going to get a lot of violence.


Sources for this episode:

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    • Sidenote: The Medea Complex is characterised as a wish of a mother to kill one's children, while the Argo became the constellation Argo Navis. Sources for these tangents:

    • Stern, E. S. (1948), The Medea Complex: The Mother's Homicidal Wishes to her Child. Journal of Mental Science 94(395): 321-331.
    • Tyminski, R. (2014), The Medea Complex- Myth and Modern Manifestation. Jung Journal 8(1): 28-40.
    • Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Argo Navis (online) (Accessed 18/08/2024).
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