The Nurse says she fears for the children and doesn't like the way Medea has been looking at them. He tells the Nurse what he heard outside Medea's house. These threats reach Creon at the palace where the children's Tutor overhears that Creon intends to exile Medea from Corinth. Medea is infuriated by Jason's abandoning her and their children, and makes threats to kill Creon and the Princess. She did not restore him, and Jason and Medea were chased from Iolocus to Corinth, where they lived as exiles. Medea managed to trick Pelias' daughters into killing him by promising that, if they did, she could restore him to his youth. In Iolocus, she and Jason hatched a plot to steal rulership from the king, Pelias. While she and Jason were fleeing Clochis by boat, Medea killed her brother so that those pursuing them would have to stop and bury his body. Aphrodite, goddess of love, made Medea fall in love with Jason and then help him to steal the Golden Fleece. The Golden Fleece was guarded by a dragon in Medea's homeland, the Island of Clochis. In the midst of her lamentations, the Nurse recounts how Jason left his homeland, Iolocus, in a ship called the Argo to find a treasure called the Golden Fleece. Discuss.The tragedy of Medea begins in medias res (in the middle of things). Medea's Nurse bemoans Medea's fate-she has been abandoned with her two young children by her husband, Jason, who has married the Princess, daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. And the final surprising appearance of the chariot of the sun seems to prove her right’ (Helene Foley). (b) ‘Medea is quite certain that the gods will support her punishment of Jason. How adequate is this as an account of Euripides’ Medea? (a) ‘A bourgeois quarrel between an obtusely selfish man and an over-passionate woman’ (D.W. Segal (ed.), Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (Oxford, 1983) Knox, ‘The Medea of Euripides’, Yale Classical Studies 25 (1977), 193–225. Just, Women in Athenian Law and Life (London, 1989), pp. Foley, ‘Medea’s Divided Self’, Classical Antiquity 8 (1989), 61–85 ≈ Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (Princeton, 2001), Ch. Conacher, Euripidean Drama (Toronto, 1967), Ch. ––––––, Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1998), Ch. Burnett, ‘Medea and the tragedy of revenge’ Classical Philology 68 (1973), 1–24 () Allan, Euripides: Medea (London, 2002)Ī.P.

Elliott (Oxford University Press, 1969) is more elementary, and has a useful vocabulary. Mastronarde (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Indicative Module Content:Įuripides, Medea, ed.

* construct a relevant and analytical essay on the text. * answer questions on specific points in the text * evaluate modern interpretations of the text * translate the text with confidence and accuracy On completion of this module students should be able to:

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