MEDEA QUOTES Flashcards
‘we women’ + ‘tryant’
We women are the most miserable of specimens
at great expense we must buy a husband, taking a master to play the tyrant with our bodies
‘From a heart’ + ‘we beg’
I tell you, from a heart that wishes you well yet would not break mankind’s laws, do not do this thing
We beg you not to murder your children!
‘tore’
He tore the withered flesh from his own bones
‘Children’
In heaven’s name, let me touch my children’s soft skin’
‘wisdom’ + ‘friend’
I have shown wisdom, yes, and prudence, and further that I have acted like a true friend to you and to my children
what men
what men expect does not happen; for the unexpected heaven finds a way.
passion
I am well aware how terrible a crime I am about to commit, but my passion is master of my reason
reproduce
There should be some other means for mankind to reproduce itself, without the need for the female sex ; this would rid the world of all its troubles.
famous
famous name - marriage to a foreigner that you felt would detract from that great name
revenge + husband
I devise some way of making my husband pay for this suffering of mine
It is just that you should take revenge upon your husband
all I have + unfeeling
All this I have done for you and yet you have betrayed me, you unfeeling monster
seasoned
like a seasoned helmsman, I must trim the edges of my sail to run before the tempest of your noisy protestations
cloud
Its clear this anger will grow
grief like a gathering cloud
Burst into storm
Aegus
What are you to suffer if you prove false to this oath
The fate awaiting mortals who offend against the Gods
Aegeus, you have a noble heart
dragon
Above the stage in a chariot drawn by dragons
