CLASSIC 45B Lecture 7: Medea
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Euripides (born in 480s-died in 406) wrote about 90 plays. More plays survive from euripides than any of the others. Competed 22 times, won first prize prob just 5. Aristotle"s remark that sophocles presented men as they ought to be, while euripides/ treated them as they are. Granddaughter of helius, daughter of aeetes, king of colchis on the eastern shores of the black sea. Jason, son of aeson, leader of the argonauts in their quest for the golden fleece. In one version, media is conflated with hecate, goddess associated with witchcraft, the underworld, and the ghosts. Brought up by centaur chiron in mount pelion in thessaly (central. Greece) after uncle pelias took jason"s father"s throne of iolcus (name of city) Jason returned to iolcus, claimed the throne. Peleus forewarned by an oracle to beware of a man who wears only one sandal ( mono-sandalos ) Devised the expedition of the heroic quest, claim the.
