CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Golden Fleece, Pelias, Aeson
17 Mar 2016
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Can spell it with or without an i (medea or medeia) Considered a masterpiece of euripides by modern scholars, at that ime was not the winner. Other winner was another playwright, don"t know who won by sophocles was second. Daughter of aeertes, kind of colchis, son of helios and brother of circe. See that colchis is quite far from greece. Seen as barbaric , see on vase representaion where she wears the yugo-slavish oufit as a barbarian, their dresses were richly decorated and embroidered. Medea wears a iara on her head. The tiara is a way to recognize her immediately. In the end of 7th century bc there is a representaion of medea on etruscan bucchero vase. Inscribed with her name, so they know it was her. Easy to read as they used greek alphabet. So we know nothing of the grammar or structure. But we can read it, because words all spelt with greek leters.
