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...Euripides' tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, and Medea, the sorceress who returned with him to Corinth and had two sons with him. As the play opens, Jason plans to marry the daughter of King Creon, and the lovesick Medea plots how to take her revenge. (Summary by Elizabeth ...

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...Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatene...

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...ides VIII Hermione to Orestes IX Deianira to Hercules X Ariadne to Theseus XI Canace to Macareus XII Medea to Jason XIII Laodamia to Protesilaus XIV Hypermestra to Lynceus XV Sappho to Phaon Heroides XVI-XXI Double Letters XVI Paris to Helen XVII Helen to Paris XVIII Leander to H...

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...eus) Book V (Perseus, Calliope, Proserpine, Arethusa, The Pierides) Book VI (Arachne, Niobe, Marsyas, Procne, Philomela, Boreas) Book VII (Jason, Medea, Minos, The Plague, Myrmidons, Procris) Book VIII (Scylla, Daedalus, Icarus, Meleager, Philemon and Baucis) Book IX (Hercules, Alcmene, Iole, Galanthis, Dryope,Byblis, Iphis) Book X (Orpheus, Pygmalion, Myrrha, Venus...

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........227 Mater-Deorum (may ́-ter dee-o ́-rum)...................................................................................................227 Medea (me-dee ́-ah)...............................................................................................................................227 Medusa.......................................................................

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...nly become bad mothers who are willing to kill their own children, as does Medea to get revenge on Jason for betraying her. Many mothers do the same...

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...but whole bookes of other Authors, as in one, he brought in Euripides his Medea. And Apollodorus was wont to say of him, that if one should draw fro...

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...at gives the poem its permanent value—the episode of the love of Jason and Medea. This occupies the greater part of the third book. The first and seco... ...n which the expression of this spirit is developed with elabo ration. The Medea of Apollonius is the direct precursor of the Dido of Virgil, and it i... ... say next how Jason brought back the fleece to Iolcus aided by the love of Medea. For thou sharest the power of Cypris, and by thy love cares dost cha... ...ldings the handmaidens had, and the two daughters of Aeetes, Chalciope and Medea. Medea then [they found] going from chamber to chamber in search of h... ... the cord in the centre, and drawing wide apart with both hands he shot at Medea; and speechless amazement seized her soul. But the god him self flas... ...om the wrath of Aeetes, had gone quickly to her chamber with her sons. And Medea likewise followed, and much she brooded in her soul all the cares tha... ...oing to Aeetes’ palace, with manifold pleading besought his mother to pray Medea’s aid; and Chalciope herself already had the same thoughts, but fear ... ... vain, all distraught as she would be at her father’s deadly wrath, or, if Medea yielded to her prayers, her deeds should be laid bare and open to vie... ... couch, in fear lest the women should mock and revile her; like to her did Medea lament. And suddenly as she was in the midst of her tears, one of the...

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...s of Theseus, at once became his enemies. A still more dangerous enemy was Medea, the wicked enchantress; for she was now the king’s wife, and wanted ... ...ould you advise me to do with him? “ In reply to this question, the wicked Medea put in her word. As I have already told you, she was a famous enchant... ...time to spare from more important matters, I should be glad to tell you of Medea’s fiery chariot, drawn by winged dragons, in which the enchantress us... ... and many other wonders must be left untold; and it is enough to say, that Medea, amongst a thou sand other bad things, knew how to prepare a poison,... ...e lay aside the bad designs with which he comes hither.” As she said this, Medea smiled; but, for all her smiling face, she meant nothing less than to... ... of plotting against his life. He therefore made little or no objection to Medea’s scheme, and as soon as the poisonous wine was ready, gave orders th... ...a little from the brim, immediately tumbled into it, dead. Observing this, Medea looked round at the nephews, and smiled again. When Theseus was usher... ...rm heart it renews the old man’s youth in a better way than by the heat of Medea’s magic caldron. And this was what Theseus resolved to do. He could s... ...into the king’s hand, poor Theseus knew not what to do or say. The cunning Medea observed what was passing in the young man’s mind. She was more wicke...

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... to the Grand Army, then the masters of Vienna, in which he said that like Medea, the Austrian 9 Balzac princes had slain their children with their o... ...tain, did not wish to compromise his newly conferred dignity by asking who Medea was; he relied upon Napoleon’s character, and felt quite sure that th... ...proper form to the Grand Army and the House of Austria. So he thought that Medea was some archduchess whose conduct was open to criticism. Still, as t... ...matter might have some bearing on the art of war, he felt uneasy about the Medea of the bulletin until a day ar- rived when Mlle. Raucourt revived the... ... bulletin until a day ar- rived when Mlle. Raucourt revived the tragedy of Medea. The captain saw the placard, and did not fail to repair to the Theat...

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...es, and that she was not to move except to a measure and cadence. So Queen Medea slew her children to a slow music: and King Agamemnon perished in a d... ...hed her immensely, Harry remarked; and when Oenone called after Paris, and Medea bade Jason come back again, the lady of Castlewood sighed, and said s... ...who was reading to her a version of certain lines out of Euripides), “that Medea became a learned woman and a great enchantress.” “And she could conju...

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...I an infant of the house of York, Into as many gobbets will I cut it As wild Medea young Absyrtus did: In cruelty will I seek out my fame. Come, thou ...

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... To come againe to Carthage. 2419 Ies. In such a night 2420 Medea gathered the inchanted hearbs 2421 That did renew old Eson. 242...

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...h knife in hand She threw her husbands murdred infant out, Or fell Medea, when on Colchicke strand Her brothers bones she scattered all... ...Of Bacchus Priests her owne deare flesh did teare. Yet neither Ino, nor Medea stout, Nor all the Moenades so furious were, As this bold...

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...s own case, and never hit the true one; In feelings quick as Ovid’s Miss Medea, He puzzled over what he found a new one, But not as yet imag... ... in his ‘Waggon,’ Could he not beg the loan of Charles’s Wain? Or pray Medea for a single dragon? Or if, too classic for his vulgar brain, ... ...er station; And so that no explosion cry ‘Aroint Thee, witch!’ or each Medea has her Jason; Or (to the point with Horace and with Pulci) ‘Om... ...apt to express Much passion, since the merchant ship, the Argo, Convey’d Medea as her supercargo. ‘Beatus ille procul!’ from ‘negotiis,’ Sai...

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...e of Yorke, 3280 Into as many gobbits will I cut it 3281 As wilde Medea yong Absirtis did. 3282 In cruelty, will I seeke out my Fame. 3...

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...a litter of puppies when mouthing a bone in the midst of her young family. Medea and her children are familiar to us, and so is the grief of Constance... ...There was nothing poetic in the nature of Mrs Quiverful. She was neither a Medea nor a Constance. When angry, she spoke out her anger in plain words, ... ...ased at having her enemy converted into a dean with twelve hundred a year! Medea, when she de- scribes the customs of her native country (I am quoting... ... that in her land captives, when taken, are eaten. ‘You pardon them!’ says Medea. ‘We do indeed, ’ says the mild Grecian. ‘We eat them!’ says she of C... ... eat them!’ says she of Colchis, with terrible energy. Mrs Proudie was the Medea of Barchester; she had no idea of not eating Mr Slope. Pardon him! me...

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...chief pomps of the Grecian theatre, after invoking ‘the magnificent witch’ Medea, I call up Antigone to this shadowy stage by the apostrophe, Holy hea... ...:’ or rather inaccurate. The burlesque was not on the Antigone, but on the Medea of Euripides; and very amusing. 11 But in this instance, perhaps, di...

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...unhonored by yet older ages. Is it not writ, that on a moon- light night, “Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did renew old Æson?” Ah, would you ... ... Ah, would you but have confidence, you should be the new Æson, and I your Medea. A few vials of my Omni- Balsamic Reinvigorator would, I am certain, ...

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... and beneath the shelter of her name. There was something of the egoism of Medea in her life, as in the life of the aristocracy that lay a-dying, and ...