Taming the Dragon: Medea & Mythmaking in South Italian Vase-Painting
Australian Academy of the Humanities 2025-10-13
Summary:
Jason taking the golden fleece with Medea’s help | Palastgarten, Trier (Source: Wikimedia Commons) We tend to think of Medea, this complex and controversial figure from Greek mythology, as Euripides portrayed her in his eponymous play: a foreign sorceress who killed her own children in revenge against Jason, her unfaithful husband. However, at the beginning […]
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