![]() ![]() ![]() For Jason has betrayed his own children and my mistress, taking to his bed a royal bride: he has wedded the daughter of Creon, master of this land | 20 while Medea, his unfortunate wife, without honor, appeals to the oaths he swore, recalls the strong pledge his right hand gave, and bids the gods to witness what recompense she gains from Jason. This is the greatest safety, | 15 when wife does not stand apart from husband.īut now everything has become enmity, and things most phila are ill. ![]() For then my own mistress, Medea, never would have sailed to the towers of Iolkos, smitten in her heart with love for Jason nor would she have persuaded the daughters of Pelias to slay | 10 their father, and so come to live here in the land of Corinth with her husband and children, where she found favor with those to whose land she had come, and was with Jason himself compliant in all things. Pelion the pine had ever been felled, to furnish oars | 5 for the hands of most noble men, who went to fetch the golden fleece for King Pelias. If only the Argo had never sped its course to the Colchian land through the misty blue Symplegades nor in the glens of Mt. Newly revised by the Hour 25 Medea Heroization Team (Jessica Eichelburg, Hélène Emeriaud, Claudia Filos, Janet M. ![]()
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