Final - Medea

Question 1

Who was Medea?

What are her characteristics?

Answer 1

• daughter of Aeetes, granddaughter of Colchis
• knows magic (from Hecate)
• ‘active intellect’
• betrays father, kills brother Absyrtus
• orchestrates death of Pelias

Question 2

Who wrote the story Medea? When?

Answer 2

Euripides, 431 BCE