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Medea

Euripides

Book Overview: 

Euripides' tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, and Medea, the sorceress who returned with him to Corinth and had two sons with him. As the play opens, Jason plans to marry the daughter of King Creon, and the lovesick Medea plots how to take her revenge.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .If another's arms be now Where thine have been, On his head be the sin: Rend not thy brow!

D.

All that thou sufferest, God seeth: Oh, not so sore Waste nor weep for the breast That was thine of yore.

Voice (within).

Virgin of Righteousness, Virgin of hallowed Troth, Ye marked me when with an oath I bound him; mark no less That oath's end. Give me to see Him and his bride, who sought My grief when I wronged her not, Broken in misery, [Pg 12] And all her house. . . . O God, My mother's home, and the dim Shore that I left for him, And the voice of my brother's blood. . . .

Nurse.

Oh, wild words! Did ye hear her cry To them th. . . Read More

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“I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.”

- Medea about to Kill her Children, Eugène Delacroix (1838.)

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