CLAS 220 1st Edition Lecture 16 Quiz 1. What was the mission of the Argonauts? – To retrieve the Golden Fleece 2. Where are Jason and Medea at the beginning of the play?—Corinth 3. What does Medea beg for from Creon?— One more day to prepare for her departure 4. What does Aegeus want Medea to help him with?—having children 5. What reason does Medea give for killing her children?—she wants to hurt JasonEuripides- Dies the same time as Sophocles - Theories about death- Reduces role of the chorus - Emphasis on female characters- Shows people ‘as they are’ (Sophocles shows people as they should be)- Interest in hero-cult- Rhetorical debate – between characters and self Medea- Jason can be king if he can capture golden fleece- Sets sails on the Argo- Arrive in Colchis and the kings daughter, Medea, helps Jason get the fleece- They escape and kills her brother to distract her father so they can get away - Go back to Iolcos and he still doesn’t give up the throne- She tricks his daughter to kill him so Jason can be king - They leave and go to Corinth - The nurse- someone Medea can talk to – she announces that she will kill her children as a tactic of revenge- Medea speaks to the towns people – see how its like to be a women - Creon to Medea- he is afraid of her (Jason is marring his daughter) - She plots a plan to kill them – decides with poison - Jason tried to defend his actions to Medea – she responds that she’d done horrible things for him and because of that she has nowhere to go - Jason says that he’s done more for her than she has for him- which is not the case –her made her famous- Aegeus says that Medea can live in Athens if she helps him bear children - Medea has a dress that is covered with poison and will kill someone who touches it to kill Creon and daughter- She reconsidered killing her children but decides to go ahead with it anyway - Glauce tries on the wedding dress and dies- Creon hugs her in the poison death and dies- The children also die These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- Medea leaves in a dragon chariot – says there is no need to bury them - Jason will later die from his ship falling on
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