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PLOT SUMMARY

 


 


 

source (Diotima)

translation (C. A. Luschnig)


 

 


 
 
 

 

 

Plot Summary of Euripides' Medea
 

 

Jason came to Corinth with Medea and then betrothed himself to Glauke, the daughter of Creon king of Corinth. When Medea was about to be exiled from Corinth by Creon, she begged him to let her remain one day; upon gaining her request, as a reward for the favor she sent her children with gifts for Glauke, a dress and golden head band. She tried them on and was consumed and Creon, embracing his daughter, died too. Medea, after killing her own children, riding in a chariot with winged serpents, escaped to Athens where she married Aigeus, the son of Pandion.