Medea and the Argonauts (Perseus)

• Attic Red Figure Volute Krater (drawing)
  name vase of Talos painter
  ca. 400-390 BCE
• Drawing of Side A, center: death of Talos; Kastor and Polydeukes, Medea
• Drawing of Side A, left side: the Argo, Kallias and Zetes, Medea
• Death of Talos at the hands of Medea (Apollodorus 1.119)

Medea rejuvenating a ram before the daughters of Pelias (Perseus)

• Attic Black Figure Neck Amphora
  ca. 510-500
  Harvard 1960.315
• Side A: Medea at left; daughter of Pelias at right
• Side B: daughters of Pelias
• Side A: Medea
• Detail of Medea

Medea rejuvenating a ram before an aged Jason (Perseus)

• Attic Red Figure Hydria
  ca. 485-470
  London E 163
• Medea on the left; Jason on the right
• rejuvenation of Aeson; rejuvenation of aged Jason (Apollodorus 1.9.27, n. 4)

Medea and the daughters of Pelias

• Pompeian Wall Painting (Naples, Museo Nationale)
• detail of main scene

Medea and her children

•  Pompeian Wall Painting (Naples, Museo Nationale)
• Pompeian Wall Painting restored (Naples, Museo Nationale)

Medea killing her children

• late fourth century vase
• main panel

Lucanian Krater

• Calyx krater
  ca. 400 BCE
  Cleveland Museum of Art
•  Lucanian krater
• Main Panel
• detail of Jason
• detail of Medea
• detail of Fury
• detail of Altar

Fourth Century Vase

• Main Panel
• 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 and Athenian Tribal Heroes

• Attic Red Figure Hydria
  Meidias Painter (signed)
  ca. 410-400 BCE
  London E 224
• Overview
• Overview (handle at right; Medea at center of lower frieze)
• Drawing of lower frieze (Arniope, Medea, Elera, Philoktetes, Akamas, Hippothon, Antiokhos, Klymenos, Oineus, Demophon, Chrysis)
• Detail of Medea