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Conversations: A Journey Aboard the Argo, the Many Myths of the Argonautika w/ Helen Lovatt

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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Valerius Flakus: A Roman Argonautica

Valerius Flakus was writing at the end of the 1st century AD under the Emperor, either Vespasian, Titus or Domitian. He obviously knows Apollonius really well and plays around with it, but it's actually not very much like Apollonious. And that his Medea is actually very virtuous. So she takes her a lot longer to fall in love with Jason. She has an entire book of watching Jason fight battles and being manipulated by person,. Like both Gino and then Venus herself actually like going down and making her fall in love. That's really interesting.

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