MEDEA
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
| Medea | Daughter of Aeëtes, King of Colchis, and wife of Jason. |
| Jason | Son of Aeson, and nephew of Pelias, the usurping king of Thessaly; organizer and leader of the Argonautic expedition to Colchis in quest of the golden fleece. |
| Creon | King of Corinth, who had received into his hospitable kingdom Medea and Jason, fugitives from Thessaly, after Medea had plotted the death of Pelias. |
| Nurse | Of Medea. |
| Messenger | |
| Two Sons | Of Medea and Jason (personae mutae). |
| Chorus of Corinthians. | Friendly to Jason and hostile to Medea. |
| The time of the play is confined to the single day of the culmination of the tragedy, the day proposed by Creon for the banishment of Medea and marriage of Jason to Creüsa, daughter of Creon. The scene is in Corinth, in the court of the house of Jason. | |
