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	Medea (play)
		The concentrated action of the play is at Corinth, where Jason has brought Medea after the adventures of the Golden Fleece but has now left her to marry Creusa, the daughter of Creon, the king.
		Next Medea is visited by Aegeus, King of Athens, who shares the prophecy that will lead to the birth of Theseus; Medea begs him to protect her, in return for her help in conceiving a child.
		Although the play is considered one of the great plays of the Western canon, the Athenian audience did not react as favourably, and awarded it only the third place prize at the Dionysia festival in 431.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/m/me/medea__play_.html (564 words)

	Medea (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Medea is a tragedy written by Euripides, based on the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BCE.
		Next Medea is visited by Aegeus, King of Athens, who shares the prophecy that will lead to the birth of Theseus; Medea begs him to protect her, in return for her help in his wife conceiving a child.
		Medea's actions were seen as erratic because they were not in moderation, and in the time of the play, women did not have much say in what went on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medea_(play) (1553 words)

	Medea (play)
		Medea is a tragedy written by Euripides, based on the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC.
		The concentrated action of the play is at Corinth, where Jason has brought Medea after the adventures of the Golden Fleece but has now left her to marry the daughter of King Creon (elsewhere known as Glauce, and also known in Latin works as Creusa - see Seneca the Younger's Medea and Propertius 2.16.30).
		Medea, uncharacteristically for a female character, is strong and powerful; the play is often seen as one of the first works of feminism, and Medea is seen as a feminist heroine.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/MedeaPlay.html (1223 words)

	SparkNotes: Medea: Study Questions
		In Medea's first long speech to the chorus (lines 213-261), she claims that women are afflicted with the most "wretched" existence on earth.
		As Medea prepares to send off her children with the crown and dress to Glauce's bed-chamber (1041-1081), she wavers five times over whether to proceed in a plan that will end with their deaths.
		Jason is presented as a character with a heroic past, yet his actions in the play often exemplify the traits of a weak, reactive character.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/medea/study.html (430 words)

	Medea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The myths that involve Medea are part of a class of myths that tell how the Hellenes of the distant heroic age, before the Trojan War, faced the challenges of the pre-Greek "Pelasgian" cultures of mainland Greece, and the Aegean and Anatolia.
		Medea got even by giving Creusa a cursed dress that stuck to her body and burned her to death as soon as she put it on, a transformation of the mythic element in the story of Heracles and Nessus.
		Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica; Apollodorus, Bibliotheke I, 23-28; Ovid, Metamorphoses VII, 1-424; Euripides, Medea.
	medea.iqnaut.net (816 words)

	Background and Images for Medea
		Medea left on the Argo with Jason, but later betrayed and killed (or enabled Jason to kill) her brother Apsyrtus, who was pursuing them.
		The princess is not named in the play (though commentators sometimes identify her as Glauce or Creusa); she is the only child of Creon, so Jason's action is the ancient equivalent of “marrying the boss's daughter,” making it possible for him to beome the next king of Corinth.
		Medea escapes in a chariot drawn by flying dragons put at her disposal by the sun-god Helios, her grandfather.
	www.cnr.edu /home/bmcmanus/medeabg.html (1082 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Medea by Euripides
		While Medea, his hapless wife, thus scorned, appeals to the oaths he swore, recalls the strong pledge his right hand gave, and bids heaven be witness what requital she is finding from Jason.
		I heard the voice, uplifted loud, of our poor Colchian lady, nor yet is she quiet; speak, aged dame, for as I stood by the house with double gates I heard a voice of weeping from within, and I do grieve, lady, for the sorrows of this house, for it hath won my love.
		For though woman be timorous enough in all else, and as regards courage, a coward at the mere sight of steel, yet in the moment she finds her honour wronged, no heart is filled with deadlier thoughts than hers.
	classics.mit.edu /Euripides/medea.html (9401 words)

	Medea guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Medea, a barbarian witch, having betrayed her family to help her lover Jason win the Golden Fleece, now finds him courting another woman, the daughter of King Creon of Corinth and a 'real Greek'.
		Medea's great first speech is stunningly modern in its account of the injustices done to women in patriarchal societies.
		Medea may seem at times a frightening character, but compare her real ethical concerns with the rather shallow and scheming h ol lows of Creon and Jason.
	www.temple.edu /classics/medea.html (480 words)

	Medea (1999)
		The play (circa 5th century BC) was presented from an entirely new perspective with the sympathetic portrayal of a much maligned and misconstrued character, Medea.
		Medea, daughter of Aeetes, the King of Colchis, falls in love with Jason, the captain of the Argonauts.
		Shakila and Aparna Gopinath, who played Medea 1 and Medea 2 respectively, succeeded in bringing out the anguish and pain experienced by her between the p lanning of the act and the first motion.
	www.angelfire.com /indie/cyfanfor/pressMedea.htm (416 words)

	SparkNotes: Medea: Comprehensive Summary
		After pleading for mercy, Medea is granted one day before she must leave, during which she plans to complete her quest for "justice"--at this stage in her thinking, the murder of Creon, Glauce, and Jason.
		For the balance of the play, Medea engages in a ruse; she pretends to sympathize with Jason (bringing him into her confidence) and offers his wife "gifts," a coronet and dress.
		Against the protests of the chorus, Medea murders her children and flees the scene in a dragon-pulled chariot provided by her grandfather, the Sun-God.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/medea/summary.html (548 words)

	The Classics Pages - Euripides: Medea (Medea Game)
		The evil king's beautiful young daughter Medea fell in love with Jason, and used her magic to help outwit her father, and drug the serpent who guarded the Golden Fleece.
		In this play Euripides boldy portrays normal masculinity in action, with the twist that the "male" is a woman.
		Remember the play was produced in 431 BC, the very year that the Peloponnesian War - that was to last 30 years - began between Athens and Sparta.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/medea/medeaintro.htm (872 words)

	Medea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Medea tells the story of the jealousy and revenge of a woman betrayed by her husband.
		The strife of emotions which passion engenders is admirably shown; and amid all the stress of their conflict, and amid all this sophistical and illusive commonplaces which work upon the soul, hate and vengeance win the day.
		Medea is criminal, but not without cause, and not without strength and dignity.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/bates018.html (979 words)

	Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival: Euripides Medea
		Warner sanitises Medea and imposes modern notions of romantic love, morality, fidelity, and the battle of the sexes on the play.
		Medea’s multiple personalities - the proud powerful vengeful sorceress, the maternally loving mother, and the sensual lover - should have been more strongly delineated.
		Because if the demigoddess Medea is not proud, her fall is not felt; if she is not maternally tender, infanticide is not moving; if she is not sexy, Jason’s betrayal seems almost justified.
	www.scena.org /columns/anson/021003-PA-medea.html (896 words)

	Shotgun Players
		Medea, a princess of Colchis, a non-Greek region on the Black Sea, fell in love with Jason and employed her destructive magic powers to help him steal the Golden Fleece from her father.
		Medea embodies both these traits, male and female, a deadly combination.” Famously murdering the sons she bore Jason, Medea takes her bloody revenge and acquires the power that was denied her at the start of the play.
		These design elements emphasize the “outsider” status of Medea, who was not born in Greece, and her atypical role as an active force in the play.
	www.shotgunplayers.org /archive/seas11/medea/medea.cfm (815 words)

	Medea
		The play starts with the Nurse fretting about the state of things and expressing platitudes; e.g., "This is indeed the greatest salvation of all-- / For the wife not to stand apart from the husband" (1).
		Medea is smart, and she insists she has suffered because of it.
		Medea's treatment drives her to violate "society's most sacred laws." Hers is the violence of the oppressed, so it's pent up and finally uncontrolled and extreme.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/medea.html (983 words)

	Medea Myth Study Guide
		Medea boiling the ram with the daughters of Pelias
		Medea's great speech (lines 215ff) is stunningly modern in its account of the injustices done to women in patriarchal societies.
		Medea may seem at times a frightening character, but compare her real ethical concerns with the rather shallow and scheming h ollows of Creon and Jason.
	www.temple.edu /classics/medeamythho.html (507 words)

	The Power of Medea and Techniques Employed -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It has been said that 'the power of drama lies in the dynamic interactions between elements of the play itself.' The power of the play, Medea, is about the capability for evil in the human heart.
		The elements of the play used to contract this message are the set, the action, the dialogue, the chorus, and the characters.
		Medea is obviously a very powerful play, and just by reading the text you do not get a real feeling for the action and the setting that would be used in a real production.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/299 (1205 words)

	Euripides Medea
		In the exodos of the play Medea appears with the bodies of her children in a chariot drawn by dragons either on the roof of the skene or suspended from the
		Medea's reference to her planning and contriving (401) would remind the audience of the meaning of the name Medea 'the cunning contriver'.
		One version has Medea kill her children accidentally, while another has them killed by the Corinthians; yet another has Creon's kinsmen kill them in revenge for Creon's death and circulate a rumor that Medea had murdered them.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/netshots/medea.htm (1306 words)

	Reception of the texts and images of ancient greece
		The play was performed in the ancient Greek original, with running English surtitles conveniently placed on the proscenium arch of the theatre.
		The acting space was the conventional stage, but enlarged by using the audience gangways as the parodoi, particularly effective for the entrance of the Chorus from the back of the auditorium on both sides, ‘surrounding’ the spectators.
		Lighting was unfussy and Medea’s chariot, suspended from on high, positively restrained, perhaps too much so—this was the one point in the production when I felt more might have been done to create a climactic effect.
	www2.open.ac.uk /ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/Reviews/OxMedea.htm (531 words)

	Euripides' Medea - History for Kids!
		Medea is a play written by the Greek playwright Euripides.
		Jason and Medea had settled in the Greek city of Corinth, and when the play opens they have been living in Corinth for some time, long enough to have had two little boys, maybe six or seven years.
		Medea, he says, will have to leave Corinth, and she will have to leave their boys with him (fathers usually kept the children in a Greek divorce).
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/literature/medea.htm (580 words)

	Medea
		We were interested in exploring the themes of public and private spaces in the play.
		Medea is on one level a family drama, a very personal story of a husband, a wife and two children.
		The space itself provided such a beautiful and mystical backdrop for the action of the play that a lot of work could be done with very simple gestures.
	www.lucaskrech.com /medea.html (414 words)

	Study Guide : Euripides' Medea
		The Medea was staged in 431 B.C., on the eve of the outbreak of a war between Athens and Sparta that would rage for twenty-seven years.
		Medea: Medea was the daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis.
		Medea proved she could restore Pelias by first changing an old ram into a frisky lamb.
	www3.baylor.edu /~John_Thorburn/medea.html (2282 words)

	Euripides' Medea
		Throughout the play the skene with at least one door represents the facade of Jason's and Medea's house in Corinth.
		In the exodos of the play Medea appears with the bodies of her children in a chariot drawn by dragons either on the roof of the skene or suspended from the mechane in the manner of a deus ex machina
		She indeed acts with the power, authority and prophetic knowledge of a "god from the machine" when she establishes a festival and ritual in honor of her dead children, reveals her plans for the future and prophesies the death of Jason (1378-1388).
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/studyguide/medea.htm (1328 words)

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		Euripides took the traditional story, recombined the basic elements, added his own twist (Medea murders her children deliberately), and presented his audience with a tragic protagonist that resembles standard heroes enough to be familiar but strays from the mold in ways that shocked and troubled viewers.
		Medea could have easily fallen into stock patterns: a Clytaemnestra warring against the polis (Jason); an Orestes judged for his crimes; or a protagonist who murders but is insane or plagued by guilt afterwards.
		Plus, no one in the play speaks of her as a barbarian (except Jason at the end), and the chorus points out how her actions are similar to those of Greek characters (e.g., Ino who also killed her children).
	www.brightok.net /~kellimcb/medea.htm (1328 words)

	Amazon.com: Medea (Penguin Plays S.): Books: Euripides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Medea shares Oedipus's convention of beginning with the perspective of a mournful look back on the events that are about to be told.
		Medea is highborn and descends from the lineage of the Gods.
		However, when Medea goes as far as to kill her own children, I was disappointed that Medea found Jason's agony to be more important than the lives of her own two sons.
	www.amazon.com /Medea-Penguin-Plays-S-Euripides/dp/0140866310 (1814 words)

	Bipolar 'Medea' leaves play adrift - Entertainment - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When we first see the character, she is shrieking and keening in a sand pit, lamenting the news that Jason is marrying King Creon's daughter and Medea is to be banished along with her children.
		Henley) tells Medea he is banishing her because he is afraid of her, you realize it is because she is nuttier than a slab of baklava, not because she is a sorceress.
		The psychological bent of this "Medea" also results in some regrettable staging, with the cast assuming birds-of-prey postures between scenes and squawking in a manner that recalls the "most annoying sound in the world" scene from the movie "Dumb and Dumber." Yet, there are bright spots.
	washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20050612-095950-3914r.htm (676 words)

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