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How does Jason betray Medea?
Jason leaves Medea to marry the princess of Corinth.
Where did Medea's story take place?
Medea's story took place in Colchis were she was born. She lived with Jason after they took the the Golden Fleece at Iolcus, Corinth and Atherns. Her story became a tragedy by Euripides. The most dramatic point was when she murdered her two children by sword in order to receive revenge on Jason for his treason. He left her in order to marry the daughter of the King of Corinth.
Does Medea from Greek mythology kill her father?
No, Medea did not kill her father, King Aeëtes. In fact, when her uncle took the throne from him, Medea killed her uncle.
Did Medea kill the King?
Medea indirectly killed King Creon. He died of poison as he desperately attempts to save his daughter from Medea's burning poison.
How is medea capable of killing her sons?
In Corinth, Jason abandoned Medea for the king's daughter, Glauce.According to the tragic poet Euripides, Medea murdered her two children by Jason.Before the fifth century BC there seems to have been two variants of the myth's conclusion. According to the 7th-century BC poet Eumelus, Medea killed her children by accident.The poet Creophylus, however, blamed their murders on the citizens of Corinth. Medea's deliberate murder of her children, is Euripides' invention which later writers copied.
How may children does Medea from Euripides Medea had?
Medea has two children with Jason, both of whom she murders. In the course of the play, Medea also causes the deaths of Glauce, Jason's new bride, and Creon, the King of Corinth. These deaths are all parts of Medea's quest for vengeance against Jason's betrayal, and, by extension, society's callousness towards women and foreigners.
What is the name of the city where 'Medea' by Euripides takes place?
Athens and Corinth are the cities where the play "Medea" by Euripides (480 B.C.E.? - 406 B.C.E.?) takes place. The action begins in Corinth, the place to which Princess Medea comes after helping Jason in his quest for the golden fleece in the coastal southern Caucasus region of Colchis. It continues back and forth between that city and Athens, to which Medea is exiled when Corinthian King Creon decides that his daughter Glauce needs to marry Jason.
How did medea kill Jason's wife?
No, Jason was killed when the stern of the rotting Argo (his ship) fell on him. Medea did, however, kill her and Jason's two young sons out of revenge for his becoming engaged to Creusa (or Glauke), a Corinthian princess, who was also killed by her.
Was Oedipus King of Corinth before he was King of Thebes?
No, he was the adopted son of the king of Corinth, Polybus.
Why does Medea kill her brother?
Cause she felt like it and mainly so her and Jason could escape the chasing king and be wed in Greece.
Is Creon in 'Medea' the same as Creon in 'Antigone'?
No, Creon in 'Medea' wasn't the same as Creon in 'Antigone'. In the first case, Creon was the King of Corinth and the father of Princess Creusa. Both father and daughter were killed by Medea, who didn't want to let go of her husband Jason. In the second case, Creon was the King of Thebes. He also was the father of Megara and thereby father-in-law to Heracles. He was killed by Lycus, who was Nycteus' brother. Nycteus was the father of Nycteis, who married Theban King Polydorus. Their son, Theban King Labdacus, was the father of Theban King Laius, who married Creon's sister Jocasta.
Why is Medea upset in the beginning of the play?
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?
