#argonauts

[kika-ila]

Four "levels" of God Games (in pastel colors)

[mikeybooch]

Medea saving Jason from the Dragon of Colchis for @classicstober Day 7: Pharmakis. This is based off of a 5th century BCE kylix of Jason being expelled from the mouth of the dragon of Colchis as witnessed by Athene. The scene is a strange one, and may elude to plays that are now lost where Athene has some sort of involvement in Jason’s retrieval of the Golden Fleece. I wanted to recreate the scene with Medea, who, in sources that have survived to the present day, puts the dragon to sleep using her magic so that Jason can steal the fleece.

[illustratus]

Jason and the Argonauts by Poly Bernatene

[mournfulroses]

George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner, from Poems translated from the Greek; "Argonauts,"

[nocternalrandomness]

An F-35C from U.S Navy VFA-147 launches from the USS Carl Vinson Aircraft Carrier

(U.S Navy photo by Seaman Katlyn Huska)

[hlblng]

"Come, my heart, put on your armour" - Euripides' Medea

Medea sits on the porch of her house in Corinth after killing her children, in a short moment of contemplation, waiting for the arrival of Iason and her final triumph over him. She is the Deus ex Machina in her own play. She doesn't need a god to intervene on her behalf, she is half-god herself.

The Medea of Euripides is probably one of my favourite plays of all time with Medea being one of my favourite characters ever put on stage. Euripides is a master of the pyschological thriller and the portrait he paints of Medea the child-killer, Medea the witch, Medea the wronged woman, Medea the hated foreigner, is still so modern and so topical, even now almost 2500 years later.

[laiapolypharmakos]

People often complain about how twisted Zeus is, but what about how weirdly twisted Hera is?????? Zeus instigates the Trojan War, in some versions I've heard, to reduce the world's population, BUT Hera sets up the whole Argo expedition just to bring Medea to Iolcus to punish king Pelias (so that he dies at the hands of his daughters, who are deceived by Medea). HERA, THIS IS VERY WILD.

I know gods are not simple creatures and there is nuance in their character and in the reason for his actions (the Argo expedition is the origin and explains many subsequent events), but if a king deliberately did not take care of my worship as he should, I would just tell Zeus to thunderbolt him 😀⚡.