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\nMUSEUM STREET  \nTwo Shillings net  \nMEDEA  \n ae. 9.Tc0. ..  \nUniform with this volume  \nEURIPIDES  \nALCESTIS(2oth Thousand)  \nBACCHE(29th Thousand)  \nELECTRA(46th Thousand)  \nHIPPOLYTUS(33rd Thousand)  \nIPHIGENIA IN TAURIS  \n(28th Thousand)  \nRHESUS(9th Thousand)  \nTHE TROJAN WOMEN  \n(39th Thousand)  \nARISTOPHANES  \nTHE FROGs(24th Thousand)  \nSOPHOCLES  \nEDIPUS,KING OF THEBES  \n(24th Thousand)  \nAESCHYLUS  \nTHE AGAMEMNON(12th Thousand)  \nTHE CHOEPHOROE(5th Thousand)  \nTHE EUMENIDES(4th Thousand)  \nTHE SUPPLIANT WoMEN [SUPPLICES]  \n(4th Thousand)  \nPROMETHEUS BoUND(4th Thousand)  \nTHE ORESTEIA(collected edtion)  \n# EURIPIDES\n\nTHE MEDEA  \n## TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH RHYMING VERSEWITH EXPLANATORY NOTES BY\n\nGILBERT MURRAYLL.D,D.LITT.  \nREGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THEUNIVERSITY OF OXFORD  \nTHIRTY-SECOND THOUSAND  \nLONDON  \nGEORGE ALLEN    UNWIN LTDMUSEUM STREET  \nFIRST PU BLISHED FEBRUARY 191oREPRINTED MARCH I9I2,MARCH I9I3NOVEMBER I9I9,APRIL I92IJANUARY I923,JULY I927JANUARY I93I AND I933  \nAll rights reserved  \n## INTRODUCTION\n\nTHE Medea,in spite of its background of wonderand enchantment,is not a romantic play but a tragedyof character and situation.It deals,so to speak,not with the romance itself,but with the end ofthe romance,a thing which is so terribly often thereverse of romantic.For all but the very highestof romances are apt to have just one faw somewhere,and in the story of Jason and Medea the faw wasof a fatal kind.  \nThe wildness and beauty of the Argo legendrun through all Greek literature,from the mass ofCorinthian lays older than our present Iliad,whichlater writers vaguely associate with the name ofEumelus,to the Fourth Pythian Ode of Pindar andthe beautiful Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius.Our poet knows the wildness and the beauty;butit is not these qualities that he specially seeks.Hetakes them almost for granted,and pierces throughthem to the sheer tragedy that lies below.  \nJason,son of Aeson,King of Iólcos,in Thessaly,began his life in exile.His uncle Pelias had seizedhis father's kingdom,and Jason was borne awayto the mountains by night and given,wrapped ina purple robe,to Chiron,the Centaur.When hereached manhood he came down to Iôlcos to demand,as Pindar tells us,his ancestral honour,and stoodin the market-place,a world-famous figure,one-  \n## INTRODUCTION\n\nsandalled,with his pard-skin,his two spears and hislong hair,gentle and wild and fearless,as the WiseBeast had reared him.Pelias,cowed but loath toyield,promised to give up the kingdom if Jasonwould make his way to the unknown land of Colchisand perform a double quest.First,if I read Pindararight,he must fetch back the soul of his kinsmanPhrixus,who had died there far from home;and,secondly,find the feece of the Golden Ram whichPhrixus had sacrificed.Jason undertook the quest:gathered the most daring heroes from all parts ofHellas;built the first ship,Argo,and set to sea.After all manner of desperate adventures he reachedthe land of Aietes,king of the Colchians,and therehope failed him.By policy,by tact,by sheercourage he did all that man could do.But Aieteswas both hostile and treacherous.The Argonautswere surrounded,and their destruction seemed onlya question of days when,suddenly,unasked,andby the mercy of Heaven,Aietes'daughter,Medea,an enchantress as well as a princess,fell in lovewith Jason.She helped him through all his trials;slew for him her own sleepless serpent,who guardedthe feece;deceived her father,and secured boththe feece and the soul of Phrixus.At the lastmoment it appeared that her brother,Absyrtus,wasabout to lay an ambush for Jason.She invitedAbsyrtus to her room,stabbed him dead,and fledwith Jason over the seas.She had given up all,and expected in return a perfect love.  \nAnd what of Jason?He could not possibly avoidtaking Medea with him.He probably rather lovedher.S","cbCaimg6WNIj97Wa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimg6WNIj97Wa","pdf",4202558,116,"English","# 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