6/9/2023 0 Comments Medea tragedy![]() ![]() She then begins to plan her revenge, but she realizes she needs an escape plan. Medea emerges to explain her situation and her grievances and to enlist the Women as her allies.Ĭreon arrives to make immediate exile for Medea and her sons official, but Medea persuades Creon to let her stay for one day. We hear Medea mourning her fate before we see her, as does a Chorus of Corinthian Women, who come to see what the matter is. We learn from the Nurse that Jason is abandoning Medea to marry the daughter of Creon, the king of Corinth, and from the children’s Tutor that Creon plans to exile Medea. Medea tricks Pelias’s daughters into killing him, and then she and Jason flee to live in Corinth, where they have two sons. After they escape from her father-an escape she makes possible by killing her brother-they return to Iolcos, where Jason’s uncle Pelias is still on the throne he has usurped. Jason succeeds in getting the Fleece only with Medea’s help. ![]() Jason and the heroes of the ship Argo seek the Golden Fleece, which Medea’s father has in her home of Colchis. ![]()
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