Medea’s Escape Countdown Deal: In the next special effects scene in the 1963 movie Jason and the Argonauts we have another illustration of what the ancient Greeks knew about the geography of their world. The Argonauts navigate the Hellespont on the way to the Black Sea, filmed in 1963 along the rocky southern coast of Italy. It is a narrow channel for sure. Rocks start cascading down the hillside into the water. The ship ahead of them sinks. But they decide to proceed anyway. A giant Poseidon appears and holds back the cascading rocks on the hillside so the Argo can slip through what the Greeks perceive to be a mysterious, unknown, dangerous region, too far away from where they live to venture.
The Cheops Books novel Medea’s Escape has more to do with the ancient Mother Goddess religion instead of all these male gods such as Poseidon, but still this movie gives you a good idea of the Bronze Age time period about 1500BC to 1250BC in which the Jason story took place long before the age of Pericles in classical Athens and even longer before the Hellenistic Period or the Romans themselves. The Bronze Age seems mysterious no matter when or how you study it or read about it.
The $.99 Amazon Countdown Deal for Medea’s Escape ends tomorrow so hurry and download a copy before it’s gone.
