Medea
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An ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the "barbarian" kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason by murdering Jason's new wife as well as her own children, after which she escapes to Athens to start a new life.
 

Medea
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1. She Fears That He Will Change His Mind When He Learns That She Has Murdered Glauce And The Rest. She Shows Intelligence And Calculation.

2. Cool And Self-possessed

3. Colchis

4. 'You Can Hardly In One Day Accomplish What I Am Afraid Of.'

5. Catharsis

6. 'She Will Yield To Me.'

7. 'But My Pain's A Fair Price - To Take Away Your Smile.'

8. She Cannot Return To Her Male Family

9. He Had Expected Her To Take The Divorce Quietly.

10. Sappho

11. 'Bring Down On Jason Justice And Calamity.'

12. Difference In Masks Worn In Comedies And Tragedies

13. 'In All Of Hellas There Is Not One Woman Who Could Have Done It; Yet In Preference To Them I Married You.'

14. 'Streams Of The Sacred River Flow Uphill; Deceit Is Men's Device Now.'

15. 'Betrayed'

16. 'We Have 'Bought' A Husband'

17. Send Her And Her Sons Away

18. She Will Not Return His Sons For Burial.

19. 'Do Not Slaughter Your Children.'

20. Queen Hecate

21. The Nurse

22. Setting

23. 'If Your Husband Is Won To A New Love - The Thing Is Common; Why Let It Anger You?'

24. 'It Was Your Choice. Blame No One But Yourself.'

25. For Alliance With The King Of Corinth.