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The Medea
Tradition
Sources
Hesiod,
Theogony (7th century BCE)
Pindar,
Pythian IV (462 BCE)
Herodotus,
Histories (440-430
BCE)
Euripides,
Medea (431 BCE)
Neophron, Medea
fragments,
Notes
to fragments (5th or
4th century BCE)
Apollonius
of Rhodes,
Argonautica
(3rd century BCE)
Diodorus
Siculus (1st century
BCE)
Valerius
Flaccus,
Argonautica (late 1st century CE)
Ovid,
Metamorphoses (late 1st century CE)
Apollodorus,
Library (1st or 2nd century CE)
Pausanias,
Description of Greece (2nd century CE)
Medea
Geography
Who was
Medea?
Medea's
Genealogy
in
the Theogony
Theogony lines 963-968
in
the Theogony
Who was Jason and
how did the golden fleece get to Colchis?
Jason's
Genealogy
Athamas,
Nephele, and Ino
(Apollodorus)
Hellespont
Ino and her children
Jason and Pelias
(Apollodorus)
Jason and Pelias
(Pindar)
source
Carlos Parada
source
Morford & Lenardon
Jason and the Argonauts on Mythweb
PRINCIPAL
EPISODES IN MEDEA'S MYTH
1. Colchis and
Return Voyage of the Argo
source
source
source
from Vani
Colchis (Dioscurias) and
Greek colonization source
Colchis
and modern site
coin
(400-325 bce) source
Herodotus
(Io - Europa -Medea - Helen)
Herodotus
on Colchians as
Egyptians
Pindar
1, Pindar
2, Pindar
3
Apollodorus
(Colchis)
Jason
and the Dragon
source
Jason
and the Golden Fleece
source
Apsyrtus
Sophocles
and Apollonius of Rhodes (Apsyrtus)
Medea
1323
(Apsyrtus)
Apollodorus
(Apsyrtus)
Roman
fortress of Apsaros,
just south of Batumi
"The
Golden Fleece"; Herbert
Draper; 1880; British source
Phaeacia
Apollodorus
(Phaeacia)
source
Talos
Apollodorus
(Talos)
Attic Red Figure Volute
Krater (drawing) source
2.
Iolcus
source
Apollodorus
(Pelias and the daughters of Pelias)
Medea
rejuvenating a ram
before the daughters of Pelias (Perseus)
- Attic Black Figure Neck
Amphora
- ca. 510-500
- Harvard
1960.315
- source
Medea and the daughters of Pelias
Pausanias
on Medea in Iolcus
Anonymous
hypothesis (Medea's
rejuvenations)
Rejuvenation of Aeson; rejuvenation
of aged Jason (Apollodorus
1.9.27, n. 4)
Medea rejuvenating a ram before an
aged Jason (Perseus)
Aeson Rejuvenated; Johann Whilhelm Baur (1600-1640); one
of 151 illustrations for the Metamorphoses; Vienna 1639.
Aeson rejuvenated by Baur; view of full text page
source
"Medea" by Anthony Frederick Sandys (British, 1829-1904)
source
Making jason young? "Jason and Medea" by John William
Waterhouse; 1849-1917; source
Study for above source
"Medea" by Evelyn De Morgan British 1850-1919;
source;
This painting was exhibited at the New Gallery with a
quotation from William Morris' "Life and Death of
Jason":
'Day by day
She saw the happy time fade fast away
And as she fell from out that happiness
Again she grew to be the sorceress
Worker of fearful things, as once she
was'.
3.
Corinth
Apollodorus
Euripides
summary
Euripides
or Neophron?
Who
was Neophron?
Aristophanes
of Byzantium (3rd
century BCE) on Medea in tragedy
Scholia on Medea in Corinth
(Ancient commentaries on Euripides'
Medea)
Aristotle
on Carcinus' Medea
Remarks by Diodorus
Siculus
Pausanias
on Medea in Corinth
Eumelus
on Medea in Corinth
Helios
and his sons (Corinthia
and Boeotia)
Lucanian
Krater
Fourth Century South Italian
Vase
- Main Panel
- small color image
source
- top row left: Heracles (an
Argonaut) and Athena (who helped in the construction
of the Argo)
- on Heracles as an Argonaut see
Apollodorus
1. 9.19.n3
- top row right : Castor and
Pollux, the Dioscuri (also Argonauts)
- middle row left: a servant
woman, the paedagogus, and Merope, wife of Creon and
mother of Glauce, who is running to the aid of her
daughter
- center of the composition:
Creon holding Glauce, Glauce swooning upon a chair and
clutching at the coronet, and her brother coming up to
help her
- middle row right: Medea's nurse
and the ghost of Aeetes, Medea's father
- bottom row left: a spearbearer
shielding one of the children and Medea killing the
other of the children
- center of the bottom row: the
chariot standing ready for Medea's escape, driven by a
figure named "Frenzy" and holding a torch in each hand
- right of the bottom row: Jason
runs up, followed by a spearbearer, in a vain attempt
to save his children
Medea killing her
children
Medea killing her
children
Ixion painter vase
source
Bernard Picart (1673-1733)
and other able masters; illustration for English
translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses from the
French of Abbot Banier, Amsterdam, 1732
source
Medea and her
children
Medea deliberating
Medea by Delacroix 1838 and
1839
"Medea's Raft" by
Feuerbach
"Iphigenia" by Feuerbach 1870 and
1872
4.
Athens
Apollodorus
Pausanias
Oriental
dress
- Medea
- Scythians
- Persians
- Amazons
Medea
and Athenian Tribal Heroes
Athenian
Tribal Heroes
Monument
of the Eponymous Heroes in Athens
Pausanias
and Herodotus on
Athenian tribal heroes
5.
Media
map
of Medes in relation to Colchians
Apollodorus
(end of section 28)
Xenophon
in the Assyrian Empire source
Median
Empire (requires
Shockwave
plug-in); NB: "Babylonian Empire" = territory conquered
from Assyrians by Babylonians and Medes beginning in 612
BCE
in 612 source
Pausanias
(end of section 8)
Herodotus
on Medes and Colchians in Xerxes' army
5a. Isles of the
Blest
location of White Isle? source
Apollodorus,
Ibycus, Simonides
White
Isle in
Pausanias
Elysian
Fields (Isles of the
Blest) in the Odyssey
End
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