Characters (Euripides Medea)

Medea

Backstory:

-Father is king of Colchis

-Medea helps Jason steal golden fleece from father

-kills brother+betrays family

-cannot return to homeland

-mad at Jason(he betrayed her+children by leaving her after she sacrificed everything for him)

Breaks Binaries

-portrayed as a warrior/breaks gender stereotypes(danger of childbirth vs going to battle)

Jason

-Medea's husband

-leaves Medea for princess of Corinth(Glauce)

Creon

-King of Corinth

-princesses(Jason's new wife) father

-banishes Medea+her children

-poisoned

-made the mistake(hamartia) of letting Medea stay an extra day before exile

Aegeus

-King of Athens

-only character that enters form the left(spontaneous)

-offers Medea refuge in his city(but she must make it to Athens herself) in exchange for her magic to help him+wife have children

Children

-unnamed

-killed to inflict the harm on Jason

-seen as a source of worry+grief ("whats the point?" of having kids if god can take them away)