Medea: Ancient Greece's Super Witch

Happy Halloween! I wanted to try something different for this video - what do you think? In this episode, I walk through the story of Medea, narrating a composite of the major sources who report on her life. Not only is Medea the most famous of ancient Greece's witches, her story is also one of the most complex, heartbreaking, and frightening.

00:00 Introduction
1:45 Part I: Medea in Colchis
8:42 Part 2: From Colchis to Iolchos
11:38 Part 3: Medea in Corinth
15:48 Part 4: The End of a Tragedy
16:48 Thanks for Watching

Ancient Sources:
Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3-4 (and see also the introduction to the Cambridge commentary to Book 3: https://www.amazon.com/Apollonius-Rho... )
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6-8
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7
Pindar, Pythian Ode 4
Euripides, Medea
Seneca, Medea

Music: "Descent from the Olympos Pentatonic." (original)

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Images:
Medea, Germán Hernández Amores, 1887: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Red figure Calyx-Krater, Medea on her chariot: public domain (via https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1991.1)
Medea About to Murder Her Children, Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix, 1862: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Medea, Frederick Sandys, 1866-1868: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Map of Colchis: Deu (via Wikimedia Commons)
King Aeëtes, Bartolomeo di Giovanni, 1487: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus, John William Waterhouse, 1891: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Marble relief of Hecate: Zde (via Wikimedia Commons)
The Campana Hera, 2nd c.: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Aphrodite statue, 2nd c.: Marsyas (via Wikimedia Commons)
Jason fresco: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Eros Stringing His Bow, Capitoline Museum, 2nd c.: Maria-Lan Nguyen (via Wikimedia Commons)
The Argo, Konstantinos Volanakis, 1837-1907: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Red figure calyx-krater, Jason returns with the Golden Fleece, 4th c. BCE: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
The Centaur Chiron teaching Achilles how to play the lyre, Herculaneum: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Pelias recognizes Jason by his one sandal, Pompeii, 1st c. CE: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Jason with the Golden Fleece, statue, Thorvaldensens Museum (Denmark): public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Phrixus tries to save Helle on their flight to Colchis, Pompeii fresco: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Dardanelles (Hellespont) map: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Attic red-figure krater, Gathering of the Argonauts, 5th c. BCE: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Jason attempting to retrieve the Golden Fleece, Roman sarcophagus: Marie-Lan Ngyuen (via Wikimedia Commons)
Jason yokes the fire-breathing bulls, Medea Sarcophagus: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegri...
Cadmus fighting a dragon, black figure amphora, 6th c. BCE: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Jason is regurgitated by the serpent, Douris cup: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Jason and Medea, Charles André van Loo, 1759: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Jason and Medea, Roman sarcophagus, 2nd c CE: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Jason and Medea Capturing the Golden Fleece, Henry Fuseli, 1806: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Jason and Medea, John William Waterhouse, 1907: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Jason yokes the bulls, Carracci: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Jason und Medea, Christian Daniel Rauch, 1818: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Medea with the Argonauts as she murders Apsurtos, Carracci: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Woodcut print, Jason and Medea escape after killing Apsurtos: kladcat (via Wikimedia Commons)
Iolcos on map of Mycenaean Greece: Alexikoua (via Wikimedia Commons
Medea rejuvenates Aeson, Nicolas-André Monsiau, 1754-1837: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Map of ancient Corinth: EcoChap (via Wikimedia Commons)
Death of Heracles (Muerte de Hércules), Francisco de Zurbarán, 1634: public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Medea offering a cup to Theseus with Aegeus, William Russell Flint, 1911: http://www.maicar.com/GML/Aegeus1.html