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| Anonymous Italian artist after Polidoro da Caravaggio Flight of Medea 16th century drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Valentine Cameron Prinsep Medea the Sorceress ca. 1880 oil on canvas Southwark Art Collection, London |
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| Jost Amman Jason and Medea 1578 woodcut British Museum |
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| Giovanni David Medea rejuvenating Aeson, father of Jason ca. 1780 drawing, with watercolor British Museum |
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| Johann Wilhelm Bauer Medea shaving Jason ca. 1639 etching Harvard Art Museums |
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| Edward Poynter Medea (tile design for Grill Room, South Kensington Museum) 1868 watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Carl Van Vechten Judith Anderson as Medea 1948 gelatin silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| August Allebé Medea ca. 1860 lithograph Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Germán Hernández Amores Medea with her dead Children in her Chariot drawn by Dragons ca. 1887 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Albert Christoph Dies Flight of Medea 1792 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Edme Jeaurat Death of Creusa and the Children of Jason and Medea, with Medea's Flight 1721 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
from The Metamorphoses
At last Medea arrived in her dragon car at Pirenian
Corinth; here, in the earliest times, according to ancient
tradition, our human bodies grew from the rain-fed mushroom.
But after Jason's new bride had blazed in the poisoned robe,
and fire in the royal house had been watched each side of the Isthmus,
the wicked Medea then steeped her sword in the blood of her children.
Proud in this evil revenge, the mother escaped from the father's
wrath. She was swept through the sky by her dragons, until she entered
the fortress of Pallas at Athens, where Phene, most righteous of women,
and aged Periphas soared together as vulture and eagle;
Alcyone too could be seen, borne up on her kingfisher wings.
King Aegeus welcomed Medea, itself enough to condemn him,
but more was offered than shelter; he also made her his wife.
– Ovid (8 AD), translated by David Raeburn (2004)
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| Edward Burne-Jones Medea in the presence of Circe (book illustration for the Kelmscott Press) ca. 1895 woodcut Morgan Library, New York |
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| Evelyn de Morgan Medea before 1919 oil on canvas Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead |
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| Rembrandt Marriage of Jason and Creusa (Juno on throne, Medea at lower right in shadow) 1648 etching and drypoint British Museum |
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| Anonymous artist working in Rome Death of Creusa - and Flight of Medea 16th century drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |