Abstract

This study explores the significance of Medea's conjugal family for the plot of the Medea. Both Jason and the royal family at Corinth belong to the House of Aeolus; coherent reference to this House is central to the play's mythological imagery. The House's mythography, of which the chorus shows awareness, involves an inherited curse associated with the Aeolid most closely connected with Corinth, namely, Sisyphus. The outcome of Medea's oath-invoked curse calling for the eradication of Jason's line is thus over-determined.

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