BGS Classics Podcast
A podcast designed to help you learn and revise for your Latin, Greek and Class Civ courses.
So far, we have:
1. GCSE Class Civ: Myth and Religion
2. GCSE Class Civ: Homeric World
3. A level Class Civ: Love and Relationships
4. A level Class Civ: Invention of the Barbarian
5. "Jumping off points": special guests join us to talk about Classical Civilisation and the multiplicity of links to the rest of history, literature, religion, and society.
BGS Classics Podcast
A Level Invention of the Barbarian 1.4 Mythical Barbarians
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Mr Keen and Mr Watkins
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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A podcast by DJ Watkins and AJ Keen of Bristol Grammar school to help Class Civ pupils to revise for their Invention of the Barbarian component.
1.4 Mythical Barbarians
Introduction
The Amazons
Where do the Amazons come from?
Amazon myth-busting
Depictions of Amazons on vases
Some famous Amazons
Prescribed sources: vase paintings and frieze
How the Amazons are set apart from the Greeks
Medea
Characters in the Medea
Themes: the family
Themes: men and women
Themes: gods
The context in which Euripides' Medea was performed
Medea as a barbarian
The audience of the Medea
Gender and other in the play