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I Would Gladly Fight in Battle Three Times Over, Than Give Birth Once… Women in Euripides

I Would Gladly Fight in Battle Three Times Over, Than Give Birth Once… Women in Euripides

Update: 2024-09-241
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Some of the most realistic, sympathetic, complex, and villainous women of the ancient world are found in the works of Euripides. He seemed to have had an interest in the people on the margins, women, foreign "barbarians", and enslaved people. Today we're looking at them, and Euripides through them. Find the International Podcast Day livestream here!

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: (Translations listed under each) Euripides' Hecuba, The Trojan Women, Medea, Hippolytus, Andromache, The Suppliant Women; Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae; Mary Lefkowitz' Euripides and the Gods.

Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.

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I Would Gladly Fight in Battle Three Times Over, Than Give Birth Once… Women in Euripides

I Would Gladly Fight in Battle Three Times Over, Than Give Birth Once… Women in Euripides

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