CLST 203 Final: Final Exam Notes
30 Apr 2016
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Won four 1st places at the city dionysia. Medea (the play) emphasizes the woman"s perspective. Medea gives up everything for jason as he falsely promised to marry her, Jason"s successes in the story depend on her enables argonauts to escape her father aeetes. Once they get to iolcus, she helps him try to kill his uncle pelias (who took the throne from aeson, jason"s father) Jason leaves her in corinth for a younger girl, says that cypris (aphrodite) helped him, not medea. Aphrodite, upon request from hera and athene, sends eros to make. Medea goes to athens then has to flee for trying to poison king aegeus"s son, Settles in iran/aria, becomes ancestor of entire nation, citizens change their name from arians to medes. Other version marries achilles after her death, lives in elysian fields. On medea"s side hecate, themis (lady of vows), zeus. Medea murders her children to make jason mad.
