1. Chapter Eighteen Lecture Two After the Argo

2. The Death of Pelias

3. Rumor back in Iolcus: the Argo was destroyed Pelias, thinking he has avoided his fate, kills Jason’s father, mother, and brother When Jason returns, Pelias reneges –Medea’s trick with the old ram Hera’s revenge is complete, but the people of Iolcus (understandably) banish the two

4. Jason and Medea in Corinth

5. Jason and Medea live happily in Corinth for a while – have two sons

6. Jason and Medea in Corinth Euripides’s Medea –Glaucê, daughter of King Creon of Corinth –Background is the first years of the Peloponnesian War –Creon banishes Medea –Jason tries to “reason” with Medea –Medea’s revenge with the gift to Glaucê and the murder of her two sons –Escapes on a chariot drawn by dragons

7. Jason and Medea in Corinth Jason dies an inglorious death as an old man –Struck on the head by a rotting part of the Argo Medea + Aegeus => –Medus of Calchis (eponym of the Medes) –Still in the Elysian Fields with Achilles?

8. Medea: Sorceress and Wife

9. Greek witches, like Circê and Medea, often beautiful and seductive –Medea uses potions, not spells In Euripides’s play, Medea is especially vulnerable –A social comment on the status of women She is also a paradigm of a dangerous, uncontrollable woman

10. Calydonian Boar Hunt

11. Another legend, not of Thessaly, but of Aetolia –Mentioned here because many heroes on the Argo were from Aetolia

12. Aetolia

13. Calydonian Boar Hunt Oemeus + Althaea => –Meleager “When that log is consumed, the child will die.” Meleager joined the Argonauts Back from Colchis, his father’s land is plagued by a giant boar (sent by Artemis)

14. Calydonian Boar Hunt The great hunt brings in many heroes from the time of Heracles and the “Seven Against Thebes” expedition –Including Atalanta from Archadia Boar brought down by Atalanta, Amphiaraüs, and Meleager –His uncles object when Meleager wants to award the pelt to Atalanta; he kills them in the scuffle

15. Calydonian Boar Hunt Althaea (Meleager’s mother), whose brothers he had killed, throws the log on the fire, and Meleager dies Atalanta returns home; wants to stay unmarried –The Race of Atalanta –Melanion (aka Hippomenes) wins the race with the help of the Apples of the Hesperides

16. Calydonian Boar Hunt They are turned into lions by Zeus for violating his shrine

17. Heroic Myths of the Hunt and Hunter

18. The Hunt and Hunter The hunt of Meleager resembles sacrifice, war, dangers posed by the hunter to society, and dragon combat Hunting is external and dangerous Sacrifice was domestic and designed to establish peaceful relations with the gods Similarly, war is external and dangerous and warriors, like hunters, can be dangerous to the society they are to protect and serve

19. The Hunt and Hunter These activities must be controlled with ritual The hunt is a stylized male initiation In many way, the hunt of Calydon becomes perverted: –Atalanta should not be there –The hunters should not turn on each other

20. End