Medeia - Text References

Theogony

• line 961 - Aietes and Idyia had a daughter, Medeia
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• lines 992-1002 - Medeia helped Jason complete the labors imposed by King Aietes; after returning to Iolkos, she and Jason had a son named Medus

The Returns

• fragment 2 - Medeia restored the youth of Aeson with her skill with herbs

The Taking of Oichalia

• fragment 4 - Medeia poisoned King Kreon and fled to Athens; she left her sons in Corinth and the relatives of Kreon killed them and blamed Medeia

Histories

• book 1.2 - When King Aietes demanded that the Greeks return Medeia, they refused saying that the Persians had not returned the Heifer-Maiden Io
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• book 7.62 - When Medeia came to Persia from Athens, the Arians of Persia changed their name to Medes

The Argonautika

• book 3, line 3 - Apollonius Rhodios calls upon the Muse Erato to recount the love between Medeia and Jason
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• book 3, line 27 - Hera tells Athene that she will ask Aphrodite to entreat Eros to aim one of his arrows at Aietes’ drug-wise daughter and charm her into love with Jason
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• book 3, line 86 - Aphrodite tells Hera that she will tell Eros to charm Aietes’ virgin daughter with passion for Jason
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• book 3, line 248 - When Jason and the Argonauts arrive at Kolchis, Medeia and Chalkiope are in their chamber
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• book 3, line 284 - Eros strikes Medeia with his arrow of irresistible love for Jason
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• book 3, line 297 - Love the destroyer, coils around Medeia’s heart after she is struck with Eros’ arrow
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• book 3, line 451-471 - Medeia ponders her obsession for Jason and hopes that he can cheat death when he faces her father’s bronze bulls
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• book 3, line 477- 478 - Chalkiope’s son Argos suggests to Jason that Medeia might help him because of her skill with drug-magic
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• book 3, line 528 - Chalkiope’s son Argos says that Medeia was taught the lore of drugs by the goddess Hekate
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• book 3, line 611 - Chalkiope’s son Argos begs his mother to ask Medeia to help Jason when he faces Aietes’ bronze bulls
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• book 3, line 614 - Medeia is frightened of her father’s murderous wrath
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• book 3, line 616 - The maiden dreams that Jason has come to Kolchis only to retrieve the Golden Fleece and not to marry her
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• book 3, line 664 - Medeia’s sister Chalkiope laments for the fate of Jason and her sons who have joined him
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• book 3, line 674 - Chalkiope asks Medeia why she is weeping
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• book 3, line 710 - Medeia asks Chalkiope how she can help her save her sons
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• book 3, line 724 - Medeia promises to protect Jason and Chalkiope’s sons from Aietes’ wrath
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• book 3, line 741 - Medeia is fearful of defying her father by helping Jason
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• book 3, line 751 - Medeia can’t sleep because she is afraid that the bronze bulls will harm Jason
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• book 3, line 843 - Medeia prepares a potion which will protect Jason from the bronze bulls
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• book 3, line 913 - The Argonauts learn that Medeia has gone to the temple of Hekate
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• book 3, line 948 - Medeia could only think of Jason and his fate
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• book 3, line 1070 - Medeia questions Jason about his home and asks that he always remember her
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• book 3, line 1135 - The goddess Hera plans for Medeia to leave Kolchis and go with Jason to Iolkos
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• book 3, line 1157 - After speaking to Jason, Medeia is too distraught to pay attention to her sister Chalkiope
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• book 3, line 1246 - Jason followed Medeia’s instructions in preparing the protective potion before he faces the bronze bulls
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• book 3, line 1364 - Jason remembers Medeia’s advice on how to fight the Earth-Born warriors which sprang from the dragon’s teeth
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• book 4, line 11 - The goddess Hera casts fear into Medeia’s heart because King Aietes is planning an attack on the Argonauts
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• book 4, line 213 - King Aietes learns that Medeia has been helping the Argonauts
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• book 4, line 242 - The goddess Hera provids a favorable wind to take Medeia and the Argonauts out of Aietes’ grasp
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• book 4, line 246 - Medeia orders the Argonauts to make sacrifices to Hekate
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• book 4, line 345 - Aietes tells his soldiers that they can keep the Golden Fleece but he wants them to bring back Medeia to Kolchis
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• book 4, line 452 - Medeia waits at the temple of Artemis so that she and Jason can kill Apsyrtos
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• book 4, line 659-752 - Medeia and Jason encounter the Dread-Goddess Kirke
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• book 4, line 1004 - King Aietes demands that King Alkinoos return Medeia
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• book 4, line 1061 - Medeia can not sleep because she fears that her father will kill Jason
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• book 4, line 1066 - Medeia cries because she fears that her father will kill Jason
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• book 4, line 1177 - Kink Alkinoos announces that he will not return Medeia to her father if she marries Jason
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• book 4, line 1219 - Medeia builds an altar to Apollon the Good Shepherd
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• book 4, line 1221 - Queen Arete gives Medeia twelve Phaiakian handmaids
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• book 4, line 1521 - Medeia’s handmaids flee in terror when Mopsos is bitten by a serpent while the Argonauts are in Libya
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• book 4, line 1652 - Medeia tells the Argonauts that she can subdue the bronze giant Talos
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• book 4, line 1677 - Zeus decrees that Medeia will defeat the bronze giant Talos
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• book 4, line 1721 - Medeia’s Phaiakian handmaids laugh at the Argonauts when they see the heroes sacrificing oxen

Diodorus Siculus

• book 4.45.3 - Medeia, Kirke and Aegialeus were the children of Aietes and Hekate
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• book 4.46.1 - Medeia, unlike her sister Kirke, used the knowledge of drugs she learned from her mother Hekate to heal and free prisoners her father had condemned to die
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• book 4.46.2 - Aietes began to distrust Medeia monitored her activities with a supervised probation
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• book 4.46.3 - Medeia took refuge in the sacred precinct of Helios and that was where she met the Argonauts
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• book 4.46.4 - Medeia agreed to help Jason and the Argonauts steal the Golden Fleece; Jason promised to marry Medeia
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• book 4.46.5 - Medeia and the Argonauts set off to get the Golden Fleece
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• book 4.48.1 - Medeia led the Argonauts to the precinct of Ares where the Golden Fleece was kept under guard
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• book 4.48.3 - Medeia poisoned the dragon which guarded the Golden Fleece
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• book 4.48.5 - Medeia used roots and herbs to heal Jason and the Argonauts Laertes, Atalanta and the sons of Thespius who were wounded by Aietes’ soldiers
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• book 4.50.5 - Medeia promised to slay Pelias
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• book 4.51.1 - Medeia fashioned a hollow image of Artemis to hide the drugs she intended to use to kill Pelias
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• book 4.51.3 - Medeia convinced the people of Iolkos that she was on a divinely inspired mission for Artemis and entered the palace of Pelias
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• book 4.51.5 - Medeia told Pelias that she could restore his youth and he believed her
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• book 4.51.6 - Medeia used tricks to make Pelias think that she could restore his youth and he instructed his daughters to obey Medeia no matter what she commanded them to do
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• book 4.52.1 - Medeia told the daughters of Pelias that his body must be boiled in a cauldron in order to restore his youth
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• book 4.52.2 - Medeia killed an old ram and then used drugs to fool the daughters of Pelias into thinking she had transformed the old ram into a young lamb
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• book 4.52.3 - Medeia did not participate in the actual murder of Pelias because his daughters willingly killed their father
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• book 4.52.4 - After the daughters of Pelias realized that they had been tricked into killing their father, they could not avenge themselves on Medeia because Jason and the Argonauts had captured the city
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• book 4.54.1 - Jason and Medeia lived in Corinth for ten years and had three sons: the twins Thessalus and Alkimenes and a younger boy named Tisandrus
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• book 4.54.2 - As Medeia lost her youthful appearance, Jason became enamored with Glauke, King Kreon’s daughter
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• book 4.54.3 - Jason tried to persuade Medeia to withdraw from their marriage agreement so that he could marry Glauke
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• book 4.54.5 - When Medeia refused to release Jason from his marriage vows, King Kreon announced her exile from Corinth
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• book 4.54.6 - Medeia either burned the palace or gave Glauke a poisoned cloak to kill her
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• book 4.54.7 - Medeia could not punish Jason for breaking his marriage vows so she killed two of their sons (Alkimenes and Tisandrus) and went to Thebes to seek protection from Herakles
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• book 4.55.4 - By the use of drugs, Medeia healed Herakles of the madness which caused him to kill his family
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• book 4.55.5 - Medeia and King Aegeus had a son named Medus who later became the king of Media
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• book 4.56.1 - The tragic poets gave varying accounts of Medeia in order to win favor with the Athenians
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• book 4.56.1 - Medeia’s son Medus returned to Kolchis and became king after he killed his uncle Perses

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