Medea

      by Euripides

      literally translated or revised

       by

       theodore alois buckley,

       of christ church.

      Wilder Publications

      Copyright © 2017

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN: 978-1-63384-603-6

      Table of Contents

       Persons Represented

       The Argument

       Medea

      Medea

Persons Represented

      Nurse

       Tutor

       Medea

       Chorus of Corinthian Women

       Creon

       Jason

       Ægeus

       Messenger

       Sons of Medea

      The Scene lies in the vestibule of the palace of Jason at Corinth.

The Argument

      Jason, having come to Corinth, and bringing with him Medea, espouses Glauce, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. But Medea, on the point of being banished from Corinth by Creon, having asked to remain one day, and having obtained her wish, sends to Glauce, by the hands of her sons, presents, as an acknowledgment for the favor, a robe and a golden chaplet, which she puts on and perishes; Creon also having embraced his daughter is destroyed. But Medea, when she had slain her children, escapes to Athens, in a chariot drawn by winged dragons, which she received from the Sun, and there marries Ægeus son of Pandion.