Resumo de Medea - Euripides

Euripides wrote this tragedy in 431 BC.
The characters are: the Nurse,
Creon, King of Corinth,
Medea's children,
the Tutor of the children
Jason,
Chorus (women of Corinth),
Aegeus, King of Athens,
Medea,
Messenger,
and Glauce, the beautiful and young princess of Corinth, Creon's daughter (but in the whole tragedy shedoesn't utters a word)
The scene of the tragedy is in Corinth, in front of Medea's house.
At the beginning of the dramathe Nurse tells us the story of Jason's and Medea's marriage: Medea was a princess of Colchis - at Euripides' age the Greeks thought that Cholchis was the edge of the earth, and an island of barbarians. Medea was a witch and sorceress too; she used her power to help Jason secure the Golden Fleece, after that they came to Corinth with their two children. But Jason wants to marry Glauce now. Medea is crying in the palace, and begins to feel hate towards her children.
But her sarrow and passivity turns quickly into untameable vindictiveness. When Creon and Medea meet each other, Medea is a revengeful women, and Creon is afraid of Medea's anger. So he wants to banish Medea and her children too. Medea craves to stay one more day in the city from Creon, and the king accedes to this request. This day is enough for Medea to fulfill her revenge.
When matters reached this stage, Medea meets her husband, Jason. They are beginning to row. The reader owns that Medea is right, the arguments of Jason are not enough convincing: for example he says that he must to get their children across to the folk, and the only way to reach that is the marriage with the corinthian princess. Through this quarrel we can form an opinion of Medea's multiple character: she betrayed her family for Jason's love, and killed Pelias with magic through his daughters.
In the next scene Aegeus meets Medea. Aegeus passes through Corinth after having visited the Oracle at Delphi, where he sought a cure for his sterility. He became an oblique prophecy, and he came to the sage called Pittheus. He makes a promise, that he shelters Medea in Athens. At this point Medea's plan is ready: she will kill her two children and Glauce. She gets off a peplos ( an old dress from the age of Homer, nearest approach to nowadays' common nightdress )and a diadem to the fiancée with the children. This would be a courtesy to Glauce to accept them. But both of the gifts are soaked with poison. When Medea was left to herself, she begins to think again the things she will do, struggles with her demons, but she doesn't give up her plan.
The messenger brings the message, that Creon and Glauce are dead. There is only one thing left to do: kill her children. The chorus tells Jason that Medea went to their children to kill them. Jason came too late: the children are dead, and Medea flees with their bodies in a chariot drawn by dragons to Athens. She laughs at his faithless husband's pain, but she makes a resolution by herself, that she will entomb the children aside Hera's altar.
Medea is one of the most multipliest women of the world literature. She serves two goddess: Hera: the goddess of marriage, on the other hand a jelaous wife too; and Hecate, who is a goddess of the nether regions. Her character contains a lot aspects of the humanity: jelaous wife, mother, maniac, etc. She might be an archetyp of the stranger too.
The tragedy is one of Euripides' best left-overdrama. It contains political attitude too: the chorus sings about the athenian democracy.

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