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Yet we have to know who our enemies are. My proposition is that it is not the underpaid, inexperienced junior researcher who wastes an academic’s time by calling up out of the blue, nor the producer who has re-mortgaged his house to get the project he believes in on air. I think it is the executive accountant who demands that a series on prehistory competes in the same slot as a dramatic adaptation given six times its budget—or who expects producers of factual radio to produce a feature documentary from start to finish (and this includes research, recording and editing) in fifteen days, or the television critic who, rather than keeping us all honest, turns a programme’s perceived success into perceived failure by one lash of his or her waspish tongue.
First published 2004, aimed at young adults). 12 I have not attempted to provide a comprehensive discussion, but rather hope to give a representative selection of versions from different eras and of the dragon, exhausted after fighting his way out, with the fleece hanging on a tree above and Athena seemingly helping him. In Apollonius and most later versions, Medea subdues the dragon with magic and Jason steals the fleece; Athena is not involved, and at no point does Jason enter the dragon’s mouth.
865-874, esp. 19 Some details appear to hint at awareness of the alternative more threatening versions found in adult fiction such as Treece: for instance, Jason begins the actual meeting with Hypsipyle full of suspicion: “I watched Hypsipyle closely, since even then I could not rule out that we might have been led into a trap” (133). The tone of their encounter is flippant; Hypsipyle’s most passionate chat-up line is “and to be quite honest with you, I’ve taken a great fancy to you, really” (135).