CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Decca Records, Jean Anouilh, Agon
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Gale and gale cengage are trademarks used herein under license. For complete copyright information on these enotes please visit: http://www. enotes. com/medea/copyright enotes: table of contents. Euripides"s medea (431 b. c. ) adds a note of horror to the myth of jason and medea. In the myth, after retrieving the golden fleece jason brings his foreign wife to settle in corinth. There jason falls in love with the local princess, whose status in the city will bring jason financial security. Medea takes revenge by killing the new bride and her father, the king of corinth. One variation of the myth says that medea then accidentally kills her two sons by jason while trying to make them immortal. Euripides takes the myth into a new direction by having medea purposely stab her children to death in order to deprive jason of all he loved (as well as heirs that would carry on his name).
