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MEDEA'S REJUVENATIONS

 


 


 

source (Diotima)

translation (C. A. Luschnig)


 

 


 
 
 

 

 

Medea's Rejuvenations
 

Pherekydes and Simonides say that Medea made Jason young again by boiling him. Concerning his father Aison, the poet of the Nostoi says the following:

At once she made Aison a lad in his prime
stripping off his old age with her knowing heart
boiling quantities of herbs in golden cauldrons.

Aeschylus in the Nurses of Dionysos relates that she rejuvenated Dionysos' nurses and their husbands by boiling them.