Love is a Curse
In this episode, it's love spells and curses in ancient Greece, examining the Greek goddesses of magic, Hecate, Circe, and Medea, in epic poetry and drama. What's a girl to do when love becomes a curse?
Researched, written, and produced by Corinne Wieben, with dramatizations by LibriVox and original music by Purple Planet.
Music
Purple Planet - A New World
Purple Planet - Slow Dissolve
Purple Planet - Deep Space Exploration
Purple Planet - Reverie
Purple Planet - Midnight Bell
Purple Planet - Death March
Purple Planet - Deadlock
Purple Planet - Redemption
Purple Planet - Spiritual Moment
Purple Planet - Shadowlands
Sources
Primary
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921.
Diodorus Siculus. Library of History IV, 44-46. Translated by C. H. Oldfather.
Euripedes. Medea and Other Plays. Translated by John Davie. New York: Penguin, 2003.
Hesiod. Theogony. Translated by H. G. Evelyn-White.
Homer. Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Classics, 1997.
Sophocles. Trachiniae. Translated by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb.
Theocritus. Idyll II: The Spell. Translated by J. M. Edmonds.
Secondary
Clauss, J. J. and S. I. Johnston (eds). Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy and Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Dillon, Matthew. Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Griffiths, Emma. Medea. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Johnston, Sarah Iles. Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Knox, B.M.W. Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theatre. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
McDermott, Emily. Euripides’ Medea: The Incarnation of Disorder. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1985.
Spaeth, Barbette Stanley. “From Goddess to Hag: The Greek and the Roman Witch in Classical Literature.” In Daughters of Hecate: Woman and Magic in the Ancient World. Edited by Kimberly B. Stratton and Dayna S. Kalleres. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Stratton, Kimberly B. “Early Greco-Roman Antiquity.” In The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present. Edited by David J. Collins, S. J., 83-112. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Stratton, Kimberly B. “Interrogating the Magic-Gender Connection.” In Daughters of Hecate: Woman and Magic in the Ancient World. Edited by Kimberly B. Stratton and Dayna S. Kalleres. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
