Immortals: Theseus
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This #MythMonday, Sara and Sam discuss Theseus, also known as Heracles 2.0 and Ancient Greece’s chief asshole. Sara mangles Greek geography and bemoans the genre of myth soup movies. Sam finds a new model of fatherhood. The hosts drool over Henry Cavill.
- Mask of Agamemnon
- Medea's drakon-pulled chariot - Red-figure krater from late 5th/early 4th c. BCE.
- Daedalus and Icarus - Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 8 — Daedalus and Icarus begin in section 2.
- Ps.-Apollodorus, The Library - Translation of the Epitome, which briefly describes Theseus's labors
- Catullus 64 - Parallel English and Latin text. The description of a tapestry depicting the Ariadne abandoned by Theseus begins on line 50. (Wikisource)
- Euripides's Medea - English text of the tragedy, translated by George Theodoridis
- Euripides's Hippolytus - English text of the tragedy, translated by George Theodoridis
- Theseus victorious over the Minotaur - Fresco from Pompeii depicting Theseus after his battle with the Minotaur (Wikimedia Commons)
- Plutarch's comparison of Theseus and Romulus - Plutarch paired all his Lives, one Greek with one Roman.
- Plutarch's Life of Theseus
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