Greeced Lightning

Immortals: Theseus


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This #MythMonday, Sara and Sam discuss Theseus, also known as Heracles 2.0 and Ancient Greece’s chief asshole. Sara mangles Greek geography and bemoans the genre of myth soup movies. Sam finds a new model of fatherhood. The hosts drool over Henry Cavill.

  • Mask of Agamemnon
  • Medea's drakon-pulled chariot - Red-figure krater from late 5th/early 4th c. BCE.
  • Daedalus and Icarus - Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 8 — Daedalus and Icarus begin in section 2.
  • Ps.-Apollodorus, The Library - Translation of the Epitome, which briefly describes Theseus's labors
  • Catullus 64 - Parallel English and Latin text. The description of a tapestry depicting the Ariadne abandoned by Theseus begins on line 50. (Wikisource)
  • Euripides's Medea - English text of the tragedy, translated by George Theodoridis
  • Euripides's Hippolytus - English text of the tragedy, translated by George Theodoridis
  • Theseus victorious over the Minotaur - Fresco from Pompeii depicting Theseus after his battle with the Minotaur (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Plutarch's comparison of Theseus and Romulus - Plutarch paired all his Lives, one Greek with one Roman.
  • Plutarch's Life of Theseus

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Greeced LightningBy Sara Hales-Brittain, Luke Patrick, and Sam Siegel