1. Why is Medea upset in the beginning of the play? 2. What do
you think of Jason, that he is willing to leave Medea for the
king's daughter? 3. What does Medea say to the Chorus about the
plight of women? Is any of what she says relevant to today? 4. Is
the Chorus willing to help Medea with what she plans to do? In your
own words, what do they tell her? 5. Why does Jason say he went to
marry the princess? 6. Do you get the impression Medea loves her
children? What from the text makes you think as you do? 7. What
does Medea do to the princess, and how does she do it? 8. What does
Medea do to her children? Why does she do it? 9. Medea points out
several times in the story that she is foreign. How does the story
overall make you feel about Greek society? 10. In some versions of
the story, Medea flees Corinth and Creon kills her children. Why do
you think Euripides wrote the story the way he did instead?
