Myths on TV/Crazy Women

Blogging is not my forte, and so I've been trying (and failing) to conjure up something interesting to write about for the past few days. Honestly considered going with Sexton's advice of, "Here kitty, kitty". However I don't think anyone would have enjoyed that. The tangent today about meanads reminded me of a show that I watch, so I figured that I would just go with that.

 My favorite television show of all time is Xena: Warrior Princess. Anyone familiar with the show knows that many of the characters are those of myth. Aries, Aphrodite, Neptune, and Dionysus appear within the first few episodes alone. Aside from the direct mythological references, the fact the main character is a woman seems very fitting. In most of the myths that I have read, women have been the driving force behind most actions. The lecture today about meanads reminded me of an episode in where Xena had to defeat the banchees. Both meanads and banchees are described as women in a frenzy however, banchees come from Irish myth and meanads come from greek. Anyway I just thought it was interesting how separate cultures have myths about crazy woman.