person
Absyrtus
Medea's young brother, whom she killed and dismembered to delay her father's pursuit during the flight from Colchis.
Reading notes
- The Heroides §12 brother
Absyrtus, Medea's young brother, whom she killed in the flight from Colchis — the deed her hand 'dares not write.'
- The Heroides §12 my brother
Absyrtus again; Medea offers Jason's ruin as funeral-offerings to her murdered brother's shade.
- Ibis §13 held back a father on his road
Absyrtus, whom Medea cut to pieces and scattered to delay her pursuing father Aeetes.
- Sorrows §3.9 Absyrtus
Medea's young brother, whom she killed and dismembered to delay her pursuing father; from his 'cutting up' (Greek temno) Ovid derives the name Tomis.