The Pnictogen Wing

aw yeah let's get our "consumer activism" nostalgia juices flowing. got a Consumer Reports TV show rolling, too

what the fuck Ralph? "Medea-like intensity"? What does that even mean in this context?! How do revenge killings line up with motor accidents?? I ought to let Lady Medea mix you a drink ~Chara

I don't suppose it's possible to turn the Medea of Euripides into some sort of heartwarming children's story ~Χαρά

There's some possibility that Euripides, whom I love as a playwright even though he's a dreadful edgelord sometimes, invented the notion that Medea killed her own children in Corinth as part of her revenge against Jason's betrayal. Pausanias, in his famous travelogue of Greece, records something quite different when writing about Corinth. To quote the W. H. S. Jones translation:

[2.3.6] As you go along another road from the market-place, which leads to Sicyon, you can see on the right of the road a temple and bronze image of Apollo, and a little farther on a well called the Well of Glauce. Into this they say she threw herself in the belief that the water would be a cure for the drugs of Medea. Above this well has been built what is called the Odeum (Music Hall), beside which is the tomb of Medea's children. Their names were Mermerus and Pheres, and they are said to have been stoned to death by the Corinthians owing to the gifts which legend says they brought to Glauce.

Glauce is another name for Creusa (as per Euripides's Medea), the daughter of Creon whom Jason's preparing to marry, and whom Medea poisons in a particularly nasty fashion. Pausanias's account of the local lore is consistent with the play here, but has a very different notion about what happens to Medea's children. I'm not sure where I'm going with this exactly; it's just fascinating to run into these conflicting accounts of famous Greek heroes and gods and so forth.

~Χαρά

I don't suppose it's possible to turn the Medea of Euripides into some sort of heartwarming children's story ~Χαρά