Medea - An Ancient Greek Tragedy

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  • Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
  • Discover the Ancient Greek tragedy Medea (by Euripides), in our two-minute animation voiced by Angela Griffin.
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Комментарии • 50

  • @greerlovesgovert
    @greerlovesgovert Год назад +87

    Wonderful summary of my favourite Greek tragedy. Deeper than a lover's love is a lover's hate. Well said!

  • @CHAS1422
    @CHAS1422 2 года назад +60

    WOW! Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn. She had good reason for her scorn, but left a lot of collateral damage, never killing Jason, but rather everybody he loved. No wonder Medea is not a popular name to give a daughter.

    • @jennieferris
      @jennieferris 6 месяцев назад +3

      I named my daughter Medea, almost 20yrs ago

    • @jennieferris
      @jennieferris 5 месяцев назад +1

      My Medea loves her name

  • @pdrg
    @pdrg 2 года назад +16

    I really liked this - accessible classics for the rest of us! More please!

  • @TheAndryo
    @TheAndryo 2 года назад +80

    Tyler Perry really has been doing this forever.

  • @y_fam_goeglyd
    @y_fam_goeglyd 2 года назад +12

    That took me back to my classical Greek OU courses! Quite some time ago, but I try to keep some basic knowledge fresh. Thank you, this was an amazing short version of the original much, much longer one!

  • @kingulingana2001
    @kingulingana2001 3 месяца назад +1

    Really - Very well made. Thank you very much for this amazing, informative and at the same time entertaining minutes, video!

  • @MillennialClassicist
    @MillennialClassicist 4 месяца назад +2

    This is a brilliant animation, thanks for sharing it. On the thumbnail there is a small typo tradegy> tragedy

  • @natedogg4035
    @natedogg4035 8 месяцев назад +3

    This gives me chills in a real way, Why? Because in 1975 there was a play called Madea in Essex county college in Newark NJ and I know the woman who played Madea and the man who played Jason and the Children who was deleted.
    2:30

  • @silvialogan9226
    @silvialogan9226 2 года назад +16

    I studied the play 'Medea" when I did my MA in Classical Studies for my EMA and I watched two versions of the play. She murdered her own children, Jason's new bride and her father king Cleon just to punish Jason for being unfaithful to her.

  • @Bio-basti28
    @Bio-basti28 3 месяца назад +1

    We all poisened with the gift of self destructrion.thanks Jason

  • @MisterSifuentes
    @MisterSifuentes 11 месяцев назад +4

    Glorious

  • @Irine-r2q
    @Irine-r2q 8 месяцев назад +6

    in Georgian mythology Medea didn't kill her children, some people killed them and blamed her, because she was foreign and the "king" of greece didn't want Jason to marry foreign woman, neither Greeks. so they blamed her children's murderer to her. neither! she didn't kill Jason's women, everything is explained by Political issue with Kolchs and greeks

  • @sushmahalder1995
    @sushmahalder1995 2 дня назад

    hell yesss 🔥🔥

  • @l3vyy95
    @l3vyy95 Год назад +19

    Why are these greek characters depicted as black? Ancient greeks werent black

    • @oppie47
      @oppie47 Год назад +8

      I was annoyed too at first, but then I realized that the skin tone matches the orangish brown skin of people depicted on ancient pottery. Take note that her children are depicted with brown skin but blonde hair. I don’t think they look African.

    • @WilliamGarrow
      @WilliamGarrow Год назад +10

      Medea isn't Greek.. And maybe you should blame the Ancient Greeks for painting themselves in dark colours.

    • @frenchfreye
      @frenchfreye 9 месяцев назад +11

      There is a difference between being dark skinned and being black. Don't know how undiverse your life has been, or how young you are, but there are many races of people who have individuals with naturally tanned skin or just tan heavily.
      Also please know I am fighting the urge to insult you because I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are simply ignorant.

  • @Stret173
    @Stret173 2 года назад +9

    sponsored by nike "just do it!"

  • @HannaBoyOD
    @HannaBoyOD 2 года назад +7

    I love the historical accuracy

    • @Snowie7826
      @Snowie7826 7 месяцев назад +3

      This is mythology.

  • @aaronlazaro7226
    @aaronlazaro7226 Год назад +1

    It's interesting that the tragic myth of Jason and Medea inspired the British drama TV series Doctor Foster.

  • @jennieferris
    @jennieferris 6 месяцев назад +1

    Great name.... just rolls off the toung my Medea gets called Dee

  • @CasualPhoenix1
    @CasualPhoenix1 7 месяцев назад +2

    Courtney Love says this is the meaning of Hole.

  • @veronicab15
    @veronicab15 5 дней назад

    the tale of no personal responsibility and lack of independence

  • @LightPinkGamer5
    @LightPinkGamer5 11 месяцев назад +2

    ‘Tradegy’

  • @-JA-
    @-JA- 2 года назад +2

    👏👍

  • @maximilyen
    @maximilyen Год назад +1

    What was that?

  • @ellielynn8219
    @ellielynn8219 2 месяца назад +1

    Medea = Media? 🤔

  • @venesse2027
    @venesse2027 4 месяца назад

    Permission to use your video for our film project

  • @kalasaha9460
    @kalasaha9460 Год назад +6

    Why'd she kill her son just to kill her husband

    • @enterprisingbiosphere3933
      @enterprisingbiosphere3933 6 месяцев назад +4

      She never killed Jason, only everyone he's ever loved. She killed them because she was a barbarian who was betrayed, and she wanted him to rue his existence for that betrayal. What else would you expect of someone who would kill her own brother?

    • @VisibleNoises
      @VisibleNoises 6 дней назад +1

      She wanted him to live and suffer. He was willing to cast her aside and leave her with nothing so she decides to do the same.
      It's ruthless but she murdered her own brother for Jason so he's an idiot for thinking humiliating her like that would end well for him.

  • @AnalogFoggy
    @AnalogFoggy Год назад +21

    Great animation but there is much more depth in Medea. It is about womans position in patriarchal society and the way man treated women like an object with no capacity to have mind of their own.

  • @anagurgenidze6076
    @anagurgenidze6076 4 дня назад

    The daughter of the king. She was georgian.

  • @s1mperadicator13
    @s1mperadicator13 Год назад +4

    I love her!!!

  • @veronicab15
    @veronicab15 5 дней назад +1

    So you, Medeea, thought it was a great idea to betray your blood family for your lustful choice.
    Then all the pain and guilt you carried added tremendous hate to the betrayal you felt. *You were never actually weak or passive* , since you took so much action in the past to get the man and life you wanted so using the slight of being perceived as weak is a rationalization of taking further action after you've been betrayed.
    In the end *you take revenge on literally everyone who was innocent in this story* but not on the one who was to blame for some of your feelings, which showcases your initial weaknesses - enmeshment with that man and irrationality.