Medea and the Daughters of Pelias
Sorry to be so remiss in posting. Around this time of year, my creative juices tend to lag, and when not working I tend to sit around doing nothing, waiting for spring's warm weather and high spirits to arrive.
I'm catching up on my Kindle reading, waiting for a new doll to come in order to dress her as the Blue Lady of Knossos, and watching TV. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, anybody? America Unearthed? Minoans getting their copper from Michigan? Really? Because I'm pretty sure there were nearer sources of copper in, you know, Anatolia, the Aegean Islands, the Near East. That sort of thing. It was tin that was a real bitch to find. Now, if Steve Wolter had bothered to get the Newberry stone deciphered, which he did not (Linear A or Linear B?) he would have discovered nothing more than King Minos's grocery list. "Get pemmican, pumpkins, corn..." (j/k)
In December, I found a slightly used copy of the late Peter Connolly's Greek Legends, from which I made some scans of the wonderful illustrations. This one depicts Medea tricking the daughters of Pelias into cutting up their father and boiling him in a cauldron--ostensibly to restore his youth.
