Ovid’s Metamorphoses #043/111: “Jason and Medea”

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 7.

How long it took to read this (aloud):33 mins 7s

What it’s “about”: 

Medea gets the horn for Jason in the worst possible way, helps him nick the Golden Fleece. Then tries to revive his dad from old age. It’s all pretty thankless – she has to leg it from angry gods (I think) and when she turns up again, Jason is shtupping someone else. Revenge follows.

Words I didn’t know: xx

Quotable quotes: xx 

How it lands to my eco-sensibility: xx

Obvious allusions, ways it was used (that I am aware of already) : xx

What I know I didn’t ‘get’: xx

To my knowledge, who’s used it why/how (RACC): xx

Further research questions: xx

Apparently there is a lost play, better than Seneca 

https://latinum.substack.com/p/ovids-medea-the-lost-tragedy-romes

Also clearly need to read the Hesiodes…

And to re-read the Christa Wolf Medea

Anything else: xx

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