GRST 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Pelias, Tragic Hero, Aegeus
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"jason came to corinth with medea and then betrothed himself to glauke. " Came from colcus (medea) to his homeland, and then went to corinth and betroths the daughter of the king of corinth. Jason and medea aren"t really married because she is a foreigner despite their children. Medea begs to stay one day before her exile, and sends gifts to glauke, who is then consumed by flames (sorcery), even creon (the king) dies in the flames as he holds his daughter. Medea then kills her own children escapes to athens in a chariot lined with serpents. "if only the hull of the argo had never flown to the land of the colchians nor in the groves been felled to furnish oars . For then my lady medea would not have sailed to the towers of iolcus" land, her heart stricken with love for jason " " nor, having persuaded pelias" daughters to kill their father, would she.