GRST 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Aegeus, Euripides
16 Oct 2018
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The greek hero jason has abandoned his wife medea in hopes of advancing his social standing by marrying glauce (daughter of creon, king of corinth) Creon banished medea, afraid she will plot revenge: she convinces him to give her one day before she is banished forever. The king of athens, aegus, appears in corinth and offers medea sanctuary in exchange for her knowledge of drugs to cure his sterility: this clears medea of all possible obstacles to completing her revenge. Medea commits to murdering jason"s children, knowing the suffering it will cause him. After this has happened, rather than wavering, medea has become even more determined. Medea commits infanticide, murdering her children and fleeing on a dragon-pulled chariot. Jason is left cursing his fate his attempts to advance station has been annihilated and he has lost everything he values. Myth used to talk about problems in real life: in this case, focus on divorce and citizenship.
