Mythology Translated Second Edition

A look at the Athenian Kings list, which includes a suprising, if not excessive amount of Lizard People. Plus Procis is back. We cover up until Theseus’s conception and his sometimes fathers happy third marriage. Bonus Herakles thought Jason was an ass-hat too!

Reasons we are Explicit: Lizard People, Procris, Procreating With Lizard People, A Suicide Pact, and Doublets.

Referenced (Okay this is one heck of a list):

17 – Never Date A Girl With Baggage (The Deluge, Not-A-Rape-Baby-In-A-Box))

20 – Cadmus The Awesome and Tireases Too! (Cadmus)

24 – Season? Really? (Demeter wandering about)

25 – Equal Opportunity Offending (Eos and Cephalus, Procris)

37 – Meanwhile, Back On the Island (Minos, Procris, Nisus)

38 – Oh Yeah You Guys Exist! (Labdecous, Procne and Philomela)

47 – His Scandalous Career pt 5 Dog Walker (Eumolpus)

49 – His Happy Destiny Pt 2 His Feminine Side (Iphitus)

As we wrap up the discusion on Medea and Jason we talk about Child Murder.  A lot. We discuss the options of Jason’s death and I finally explain why I hate this guy so hard. 

Also this episode as a snippet from Extra Credit 11 about the orginal audience of The Medea.

Reasons we are explict: Child Murder (A Ton Of It), Just All Around Different Types Of Grizzly Death, Dragons, Bad Shelving

Refrence Episodes:

038 – Oh Yeah, You Guys Exist!

Medea introduces the daughter of Pelias to a Stew Recipe and Pelias gets his comeuppance for something or another.  Aeson and his family dies… Sometimes. Acastus gets the throne of Ioclus and kicks our couple the hell out of his country.  As a bonus we get to hear a bit of Medea Awesomeness that is pretty obscure.

Reasons we are explict: Murder, Cooking, Deception (at that level it counts as something to be warned about), Uniquness, Options.

We are covering the Voyage of the Argo from when they leave Circe’s Island to the defeat of Talos, mostly following Apollonius as he is still the closest to a canonical source for the material for all this sequence of events are based more on The Odyssey than any previous variations of the Argo’s Journey. 

We are covering Orpheus Vs Sirens, The Planktai (and the excuse for all of this), Scylla and Charybdis, Jason and Medea’s shotgun wedding and Medea kicking a robot’s ass. 

Reasons we are explicit: Return Of The Giant Death Robot, Foreshadowing, Music Magic, Giant Squid, Curses, Libya, Fire Breathing Rocks and A Magical Clod Of Dirt

References:

037 – Meanwhile Back On The Island

028 – Winds and Wings

We are on the return trip of the Argo, but there are options as to how that trip goes. We discuss the death of Absyrtus who was added into Mythology just to die horribly and have his corpse desecrated and meet Circe.

Reasons we are explicit: Child Murder, Corpse Desecration, Geography Expansion Packs, Options, A Talking Boat, Glowing Eyes and Witches. 

Jason meets Aeetes, the beloved son of Helios and Medea the Beloved daughter of Aeetes. He starts off on the wrong foot but everything is made better by godly intervention and he pulls off some admittedly spectacular stuff.  Then sneaks off in the middle of night.

Reasons we are Explict: King Sex, Revoking Of Free Will, Lying, Robots (who knew Greek Myth was so Robot heavy?), Dragon-Slaying, A Cadmian Reprise, and Informed Attributes.

We are covering the last leg of the Argo journey to Colchis and most looking at the eye watering variations of Phineus. People Die, Speed metal is invented and we get another solid reason to be careful of how you word things.

Reasons we are explicit: Lack Of 30 Foot Jumping Shark, Thrace, Step-Mothering, Also Sorts Of Unhealthy Ways To Go Blind, Prophecy and Two Moments of Sheer Awesome.

Back to earning our Explicit tag with Sex, Murder and a possible case of Humanitarianism, cause it isn’t cannibalism if your not human to begin with.

We follow the first leg of the journey of the Argo to Lemnos where the sex happens, then to Cyzicus where a guy ends up killed for a really stupid reason and on to the kidnapping of Hylas and the abandonment of Herakles… Sometimes.

Reasons we are Explicit: Heh, Sex, Sex, Sex, More Sex, Accidental Murder, Thrace, Embarrassing Body Odor,  Intentional Genocide, A Talking Ship and Inspiring The Aeneid. 

This week we tackle the list of Argonauts thru the three surviving lists we have.  It’s a lot of names, some really interesting asides and up until Apollonius goes nuts on us a solid party of adventures. 

Final Total: 5 Sailors, 2 Seers, 3 Rouges, 1 Bard, 1 Healer, 1 Berserker and 5 counts of Nepotism out of 53

For All Hallow’s Eve I thought I would share the original version of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with you all.  It comes from The Lover of Lies by Lucian. Where the whole story is a group of guys telling ghost and monster stories to each other at a tavern while bored.