Verse tragedy · c. AD 50

Medea

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1907)

On the day of her husband Jason’s wedding to Creusa, the princess of Corinth, the Colchian sorceress Medea is ordered into exile by King Creon. She wins one day’s grace and spends it on vengeance: she sends the bride a poisoned robe and crown that burn her and her father to death. Then, to wound Jason beyond healing, she kills the two sons she has borne him before his eyes and escapes through the air in a chariot drawn by dragons.

Contents · 6 parts

• Persons of the Play9 lines
• Act Iabout 120 lines
• Act IIabout 290 lines
• Act IIIabout 370 lines
• Act IVabout 220 lines
• Act Vabout 190 lines

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