archive shite and greek myths

Spent weekend so far doing nothing much - archiving, harassing people by email to archive their fic, watching Farscape, watching part of Jason and the Argonauts (so bad! :snerk:) While watching, I got into my irate self that's recently been surfacing when reading old tales/films based on old tales, which mostly starts going "Excuse me, what bloody right have you to nick the Golden Fleece from them? You have bugger all claim to it in the first place." This may be a result of a conscience formed from Terry Pratchett and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I just spent the whole thing rather irritated, as if he'd stolen it from someone in his own country, he'd get the full force of the law upon him, but it's *Bad* people of Colchis who were gifted with this totem and wealth by Phryxus! You shouldn't have it, we decided to nick it from you on a whim!' Mind you, I do get slightly snarky pleasure when Medea appears, as he's gonna get his when he treats her badly.

Hmm. Interesting. Just did a search on Medea and Jason (and Theseus) and it turns out the Euripedes play (where most myths get their version of the story) - Medea killing her two children by Jason after poisoning his new wife - was a piece of propaganda commissioned in 5th century BC to counteract the previous version of the story, which was bloody bad for tourism, 400 years after the fact. The previous version stated that the King of Corinth, Creon, killed 13 of Medea's 14 kids in retaliation for her killing his daughter Creusa, Jason's new wife. Both versions sent her to Athens to marry Aegeus (Theseus' father).