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Medea in a fresco from Herculaneum. Medea is a direct descendant of the sun god Helios (son of the Titan Hyperion) through her father King Aeëtes of Colchis.According to Hesiod (Theogony 956–962), Helios and the Oceanid Perseis produced two children, Circe and Aeëtes. [5]
In Greek mythology, Mermerus (Ancient Greek: Μέρμερος, Mérmeros) and Pheres (Ancient Greek: Φέρης, Phéres) were the sons of Jason and Medea. They were killed either by the Corinthians [1] or by Medea, [2] for reasons that vary depending on the rendition. In one account, Mermerus was killed by a lioness while hunting. [3]
[10] A common urban legend claimed that Euripides put the blame on Medea because the Corinthians had bribed him with a sum of five talents. [ 11 ] In the 4th century BC, South-Italian vase painting offers a number of Medea representations that are connected to Euripides' play — the most famous is a krater in Munich.
Deus ex machina in Euripides' Medea, performed in 2009 in Syracuse, Italy; the sun god sends a golden chariot to rescue Medea.. Deus ex machina (/ ˌ d eɪ ə s ɛ k s ˈ m æ k ɪ n ə, ˈ m ɑː k-/ DAY-əs ex-MA(H)K-in-ə, [1] Latin: [ˈdɛ.ʊs ɛks ˈmaːkʰɪnaː]; plural: dei ex machina; English "god from the machine") [2] [3] is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a ...
Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches by Henry Fuseli. The Three Witches first appear in Act 1, Scene 1, where they agree to meet later with Macbeth. In Act 1, Scene 3, they greet Macbeth with a prophecy that he shall be king, and his companion, Banquo, with a prophecy that he shall generate a line of kings. The prophecies have great impact upon ...
Absyrtus was the son of Aeëtes, king of Colchis and a brother of Medea and Chalciope.His mother is variously given: Hyginus calls her Ipsia, [3] Hesiod and the Bibliotheca call her Idyia, [4] Apollonius calls her Asterodeia, a Caucasian Oceanid [5] and others Hecate, [6] [7] the Nereid Neaera [8] [9] or Eurylyte.
Medea is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of about 1027 lines of verse written by Seneca the Younger. It is generally considered to be the strongest of his earlier plays. [ 1 ] It was written around 50 CE.
Chicago and London: U of Chicago P. ISBN 0-226-30128-1. Gregory, Justina, ed. 2005. A Companion to Greek Tragedy. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World ser. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 1-4051-7549-4. Ley, Graham. 2007. The Theatricality of Greek Tragedy: Playing Space and Chorus. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P. ISBN 0-226 ...