Literature and is the history dot come. Oh, Hello and welcome to literature and history.

Episode 33, Woman the Barbarian, a program on the play Medea by Yurypides. Now, before we get started today, before

Eurypides stuns us with his tour de force, Medea, I want to take a quick minute to

tell you about another podcast.

This podcast is called The History of Ancient Greece, and it's by a wonderful guy named Ryan Stitt.

Ryan's degrees are in classical languages

and ancient history, so he's well qualified

to tell you all about the Greco-Roman world.

And both Ryan and I think that our two podcasts, literature

and history, and then the history of ancient Greece, work really well together

for anybody who's trying to squeeze some learning into his or her busy day

and wants to know a bit more about ancient Greece.

Now if you listen to my show you know how stuff works here.

I give you some background up front and then I tell

you the story of a work of literature and then we take some time and discuss the work

of literature in the context of the historical environment in which it arose.

It's a pretty good approach, but from a purely historical perspective, we often end up just

kind of parachuting down into any given moment, you know, the period of impure. of

the period of Imperial Athens or the early Peloponnesian war and that kind of stuff and not always

moving chronologically.

That I think is why Ryan's podcast, The History of Ancient Greece,

is a good partner for this sequence of my show. The History of ancient Greece is a full scale chronologically organized

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