![]() ![]() ![]() At first, he says she must leave immediately, attempting to protect his family and knowing her history as a devotee of Hecate, the goddess of witches, but Medea convinces him to allow her to stay just one more day as she tries to figure out where she will go. In Corinth at this time in history, a woman put aside as Medea has been losing all status and support, which is shown when Creon himself orders her out of the kingdom. This earlier history, which would have been known by the Greeks, should have been a warning to Jason. Nor does she have many friends in other lands because of her continued assistance to Jason. Because Medea defied her father’s wishes in helping Jason to survive the tests that were given him and helped him escape from Colchis with one of the prized treasures of the land, the Golden Fleece, killing her brother in the process, she does not have the option of returning to her family. Medea is a princess of Colchis and, at the start of Euripides’s play, she is just finding out that her husband, Jason, is leaving her for the daughter of Creon, the king of Corinth. ![]() The play ‘Medea’ written by Euripides is a Greek tragedy that tells the story of a woman who has been created in ancient Corinth. ![]()
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