Myths & Monsters

Sky History HD

10:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Monday 9 December

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Love is a universal and powerful emotion, but it can also be destructive. This episode focuses on historial acts of love and betrayal. It features the medieval romance of Tristan and Isolde, whose love affair threatened the fate of their kingdom. Plus, how the abandonment of Dido by the hero Aeneas paved the way for Rome, how Norse attitudes to sex and marriage were expressed in the burlesque farce the Lay of Thrym and features Medea, who was guilty of the darkest crime of love and passion - the murder of her own children