Classical Studies 2200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dionysia, Di Penates, Sabines
23 Mar 2016
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Represents an other foreign woman with witchy powers, doesn"t look like rest of greeks. Her name indicates she is clever: acive intellect. In order to delay her father"s leet, she cuts her brother into pieces (absytrus) Medeas orchestrates death of old king pelias, tricking daughters into boiling him into a pot. Medea feels betrayed and dishonoured and jason breaking his oath to her. Medea feels she has been married to jason and he has no reason to abandon her as his wife and. She and jason lee from jason"s home town iocus, end up in corinth. Jason arranges with king of corinth to marry his daughter she bore him children: jason feels enitled to arrange marriage with corinthian princess, medea writen and performed in 431. First person that comes to stage is the old nurse she is a slave, woman, foreigner: nurse says if only argos haul had never sailed to colchis .
