Immortals: Theseus

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 AgamemnonMedea'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 laborsCatullus 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 TheodoridisEuripides's Hippolytus - English text of the tragedy, translated by George TheodoridisTheseus 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