Natalie Haynes — No Friend to This House: A Reimagining of Medea
Bestselling classicist and comedian retells the myth of Medea from the priestess's perspective, centering love, vengeance, and family betrayal.
Date & Time at 1:00 PM EST
Location Toronto Reference Library Toronto, CA
Organizer Toronto Public Library
Why we picked this
Haynes has become the best popular classicist writing today. Her Medea retelling strips away Jason's heroic narrative to reveal the woman behind the myth.
Natalie Haynes is a classicist, comedian, and Sunday Times bestselling author whose retellings of Greek myth have found a massive audience by centering the women that traditional versions pushed to the margins. Her Medea is not Jason’s spurned wife — she’s a priestess with power, a daughter of a brutal king, and a woman whose choices make sense when you hear them from her side.
In conversation with CBC’s Elamin Abdelmahmoud at the Toronto Reference Library’s Appel Salon. Free.