Mythology Translated Second Edition

Been  Rough week.  Adjusting to new meds and lost a ferret. Will be back in two weeks with Orpheus, Linus and The Muses. 

We cover Orion today! His blinding and somehow or another usual death by Artemis’s hand and a bit about how upset I was to find that he too falls into the Sex Offender Category

We are talking about the great healer of Greek Myth. Who might have been a Lich, Aesculapius! famous for raising the dead, in apparently a larger amount than I remembered and was smote for doing so. Sometimes.

We finish up Theseus today! Covering Peirthous Bad Idea, Theseus kidnapping Helen as a child and his ignoble death by the hands of some guy. Unless he never came out of the underworld. 

In which we cover the uprising against Theseus, the random going out of his way to irate the amazons, the story of Phaedra and Hippolytus, and touch on another divine sex change story.

Correction it is at the 4 dollar sub level not 5

Theseus takes a small vacation in Crete, Defeats the Labyrinth with whatever Ariadne happened to have in her pocket and we follow the consequences of his actions up to the death of Minos. 

Theseus gets to Athens, meets a nice little ol’ lady, captures and kills a rampaging bull, almost get poisoned and Volunteers for Tribute. Medea leaves our mythological stage in a fit of pique and sometimes rescues her father on the way out. Plus the poor neglected Medus. 

I get a bit excitable with Theseus proclamations and left it in because I was having fun with it.  

As mentioned on Twitter earlier this week, I have news! I think Happy News that I want to share with everyone. 

We kick off the official start of Theseus story as he wanders along the coast killing a bunch of bandits thru… well mostly brute strength.  We cover 5 bandits who all have an interesting gimmick, two of which involve monsters who love them Lake Placid style.

Reasons we are explicit: So Much Murder All Around, Romans, The Depreciation of Labours, Far Too Much Hyginus, Heraklean Virtues.   

A surprise academic episode! It turns out, to my surprise, that Plutarch is a necessary source of the frame work for  story of Theseus. So this week we are looking at Plutarch and his life work “Parallel Lives”.