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Caroline Lawrence

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
672 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

It's a real net. The harpies are claymation, and they actually catch the harpies with this net. In Apollonius, this is where Zetes and Callias, the flying sons of Boreas, come in, and they chase the harpies, and they fly after them with their swords.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

all the way going west, west, west, west, west, to some islands called the Strophades, which are little islands off the left-hand side of Greece, which is the west, and where Aeneas will go. And that's where he's going to meet the Harpies later on. So they get to stop there. And Strophades actually means turning, the turning, because that's where Cetes and Callias turn around and fly back.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

all the way going west, west, west, west, west, to some islands called the Strophades, which are little islands off the left-hand side of Greece, which is the west, and where Aeneas will go. And that's where he's going to meet the Harpies later on. So they get to stop there. And Strophades actually means turning, the turning, because that's where Cetes and Callias turn around and fly back.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

all the way going west, west, west, west, west, to some islands called the Strophades, which are little islands off the left-hand side of Greece, which is the west, and where Aeneas will go. And that's where he's going to meet the Harpies later on. So they get to stop there. And Strophades actually means turning, the turning, because that's where Cetes and Callias turn around and fly back.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

with the Argonauts. So they've chased away the Harpies and there are different versions of the Harpies and what they're like and who Phineas was and everything. That's huge fun.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

with the Argonauts. So they've chased away the Harpies and there are different versions of the Harpies and what they're like and who Phineas was and everything. That's huge fun.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

with the Argonauts. So they've chased away the Harpies and there are different versions of the Harpies and what they're like and who Phineas was and everything. That's huge fun.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

Let's jump to Colchis. And of course, they arrive at Colchis, which is the end of the world. And there are various ways where they meet Medea. But in most of them, I'm afraid the gods have a part to play and make her fall in love with him so that she will help him. Now, at Colchis, the king of Colchis is Aetes, the king with too many E's in his name. A-E-E-T-E-S. Too many E's.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

Let's jump to Colchis. And of course, they arrive at Colchis, which is the end of the world. And there are various ways where they meet Medea. But in most of them, I'm afraid the gods have a part to play and make her fall in love with him so that she will help him. Now, at Colchis, the king of Colchis is Aetes, the king with too many E's in his name. A-E-E-T-E-S. Too many E's.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

Let's jump to Colchis. And of course, they arrive at Colchis, which is the end of the world. And there are various ways where they meet Medea. But in most of them, I'm afraid the gods have a part to play and make her fall in love with him so that she will help him. Now, at Colchis, the king of Colchis is Aetes, the king with too many E's in his name. A-E-E-T-E-S. Too many E's.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

And he's the father of a couple of daughters and a son named Absurtus and Medea is the youngest. And she's a priestess of Hecate. She's a sorceress, a witch. She's very young in Apollonius and quite vulnerable and very sympathetic. And she falls in love with Jason. So she's very torn about whether she should be loyal to support him or her father.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

And he's the father of a couple of daughters and a son named Absurtus and Medea is the youngest. And she's a priestess of Hecate. She's a sorceress, a witch. She's very young in Apollonius and quite vulnerable and very sympathetic. And she falls in love with Jason. So she's very torn about whether she should be loyal to support him or her father.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

And he's the father of a couple of daughters and a son named Absurtus and Medea is the youngest. And she's a priestess of Hecate. She's a sorceress, a witch. She's very young in Apollonius and quite vulnerable and very sympathetic. And she falls in love with Jason. So she's very torn about whether she should be loyal to support him or her father.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

And Ovid does this a lot, too, because Ovid and his metamorphoses really gets into Medea's head. And I think we were talking before that she, as soon as Medea appears, all the focus goes on her and away from poor Jason. She's so much more fascinating than Jason, who's quite bland at times. She falls in love with Jason because of his beauty.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

And Ovid does this a lot, too, because Ovid and his metamorphoses really gets into Medea's head. And I think we were talking before that she, as soon as Medea appears, all the focus goes on her and away from poor Jason. She's so much more fascinating than Jason, who's quite bland at times. She falls in love with Jason because of his beauty.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

And Ovid does this a lot, too, because Ovid and his metamorphoses really gets into Medea's head. And I think we were talking before that she, as soon as Medea appears, all the focus goes on her and away from poor Jason. She's so much more fascinating than Jason, who's quite bland at times. She falls in love with Jason because of his beauty.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

And Aetes says, okay, you can have the golden fleece, but you must do this task. You must harness my bronze, two bronze bulls with breathe fire and sew some dragon's teeth. And if you can do that, I'll let you have the fleece. And of course, it's an impossible task, except that Medea gives him some special anointing oil to put on himself and his weapons to protect him from the flames.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

And Aetes says, okay, you can have the golden fleece, but you must do this task. You must harness my bronze, two bronze bulls with breathe fire and sew some dragon's teeth. And if you can do that, I'll let you have the fleece. And of course, it's an impossible task, except that Medea gives him some special anointing oil to put on himself and his weapons to protect him from the flames.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

And Aetes says, okay, you can have the golden fleece, but you must do this task. You must harness my bronze, two bronze bulls with breathe fire and sew some dragon's teeth. And if you can do that, I'll let you have the fleece. And of course, it's an impossible task, except that Medea gives him some special anointing oil to put on himself and his weapons to protect him from the flames.

The Ancients
Jason and the Argonauts

And he's able to harness it. the fire-breathing bulls, and so the teeth, which go back to Cadmus, way back in Cadmus. Whole other story. The movie does a very clever thing. It has him kill the dragon, which doesn't happen in Apollonius, and then use those dragon's teeth to sew them. And of course, that's when these wonderful skeleton warriors pop up out of the ground.