Medea

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.14 Colchian woman

  Medea of Colchis, who murdered her own children to punish Jason; type of the killing mother.

• The Art of Love §1.10 the mother bloody with the murder of her sons

  Medea, who avenged Jason's betrayal by killing their children.

• The Art of Love §2.5 Medea's herbs

  Medea of Colchis, the great sorceress; her drugs could not make love itself endure.

• The Heroides §6 Medea

  The sorceress-princess of Colchis who helped Jason win the Fleece and supplanted Hypsipyle; later murderess of her brother and children.

• The Heroides §6 the Phasian

  Medea, called 'the Phasian' from the Colchian river Phasis; to Pelias' men, the true winner of the Fleece.

• The Heroides §6 her brother

  Medea murdered and dismembered her brother Apsyrtus to delay her father's pursuit — the crime that proves her capable of anything.

• The Heroides §12 Medea

  Princess and sorceress of Colchis who won the Golden Fleece for Jason, fled with him, and is now cast aside for a Corinthian bride. The speaker, brooding revenge.

• The Heroides §12 queen of the Colchians

  Medea, recalling that as a Colchian princess she had freely given Jason her time and her magic.

• The Heroides §16 the Phasian woman

  Medea of the Colchian Phasis, carried off by Jason.

• The Heroides §17 Medea

  The Colchian princess whom Jason abandoned despite great promises; Helen's cautionary parallel.

• The Heroides §19 the Phasian woman

  Medea of the Colchian Phasis, carried off by Jason.

• Letters from the Black Sea §3.1 daughter of Aeetes

  Medea, daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, who murdered her own children; one of the savage women Livia is emphatically not.

• The Festivals §2.proem Phasian woman

  Medea, from the river Phasis in Colchis, who fled to Athens on her dragon-drawn car.

• Ibis §19 Phasian crown

  Medea (of Phasis in Colchis), whose poisoned crown and robe burned the bride Creusa, her father Creon, and the palace.

• Metamorphoses §7.156 the daughter of Aeetes

  Medea, princess of Colchis, granddaughter of the Sun and a sorceress of Hecate; her love for Jason drives the first half of Book 7.

• The Cure for Love §2 the mother

  Medea, who avenged Jason's betrayal by killing the children she had borne him — 'her shared blood.'

• Sorrows §3.8 Medea

  The Colchian sorceress who fled Corinth in a dragon-drawn chariot; another magical flight Ovid longs for.