Folklore Forensics

Medea: The Most Infamous Child Murders of Greek Mythology

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A spring morning in Corinth should have ended in a royal wedding. Instead, it becomes a multi-victim homicide scene: a princess, a king, and two young boys —while the primary suspect disappears without a trace.

For our second episode, we reopen the cold case of Medea: a foreign-born priestess with expertise in pharmakeia, a husband who trades her for power, and a city whose laws offer her no…