publisher (link) Ovid also wrote a full play called Medea, from which only a few lines are preserved. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Medea. Apollodorus...

can be dated the premiere of his tragedy Medea, which was admired in antiquity but is no longer extant. Ovid's next poem, the Medicamina Faciei (a fragmentary...

Ovid, Seneca the Younger and Hosidius Geta, among others); again in 16th-century Europe; and with the development of modern literary criticism: Medea...

"Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his magnum opus. The poem chronicles the history of the...

name Medea is mentioned several times, as a way to make fun of Clodia, sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher, the man who exiled Cicero. Medea (Ovid's lost...

of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos. He was married to the sorceress Medea, the granddaughter of the sungod Helios. He was also the great-grandson...

direct contrast between the Medea that ancient audiences would know and the one they are presented with here shows how Ovid is taking, not only themes...

on the way. When he reaches Athens, he finds that Aegeus is married to Medea (formerly wife of Jason), who plots against him. The most famous legend...

Ovid, the Latin poet of the Roman Empire, was banished in 8 AD from Rome to Tomis (now Constanța, Romania) by decree of the emperor Augustus. The reasons...

American Philological Association (TAPA) 133: 123–146. Hinds, S. (1993) "Medea in Ovid: Scenes from the Life of an Intertextual Heroine", Materiali e discussioni...

transfixed eyes, rapacious beak, greyish white wings, and hooked claws in Ovid's Fasti. This is the only thorough description of the strix in Classical literature...

survives in several accounts, the most extensive and famous among them being Ovid's Metamorphoses. His myth had been known since at least the sixth century...

one of the several evils who inhabit the entrance to the Underworld. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, she lives in Scythia, a desolate place where she scrabbles...

Electryon, the son of Perseus and Andromeda, and king of Tiryns and Mycenae or Medea in Argolis. Her mother was Anaxo, daughter of Alcaeus and Astydamia. Other...

946); mentions the power of his song over rocks, trees, and wild beasts (Medea 543, Iphigenia in Aulis 1211, Bacchae 561, and a jocular allusion in Cyclops...

in his list of Giants, and Ovid seems to conflate the Gigantomachy with the later siege of Olympus by the Aloadae. Ovid also seems to confuse the Hundred-Handers...

Medea 570 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.228–230 Euripides, Medea 956 Euripides, Medea 1322 Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.28 Seneca, Medea 32–41...

father of Medea, and Perses. Her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur. Other accounts make her and her niece Medea the daughters...

Poseidon. In some accounts, it is King Aristo (Aeson) who Medea rejuvenates. Argonautica, book II; Ovid XIII, 710; Virgil III, 211, 245 The Odyssey, Book XII...

"fair-cheeked Medusa". In a late version of the Medusa myth, by the Roman poet Ovid, Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, but when Neptune (the Roman equivalent...

ancient Stoicism. As a tragedian, he is best known for plays such as his Medea, Thyestes, and Phaedra. Seneca had an immense influence on later generations—during...

(1849). Grecian and Roman mythology. New York: Putnam. p. 266. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.452-470 Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.362 Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.72 Sappho...

the play Medea, written by Euripides in the fifth century BC, and rooted in the very old oral traditions of Greek mythology. Euripides' Medea has remained...

metrical exception in Ovid's extant work. His lost tragedy Medea presumably used other measures. Gareth D. Williams, "On Ovid's Ibis: A Poem in Context...

him he committed suicide. In another story, he was killed by Jason's wife Medea, who brought him back to life as a young man. Aeson was the son of Cretheus...

boat was built with a variety of wood from around the region of Greece. In Medea, Euripides mentions the oars were made from pine trees around Mount Pelion...

agree that Sycorax, a foil for Prospero, is closely related to the Medea of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Postcolonialist writers and critics see Sycorax as giving...

from the bite of a viper that had grown from a drop of Medusa's blood. Medea was unable to save him, even by magical means. The Argonauts buried him...

AD) is an 814-line poem in Latin by Roman poet Ovid. In this companion poem to The Art of Love, Ovid offers advice and strategies to avoid being hurt...

Renaissance, interest revived in the original story, typically as derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The story has appeared many times in such diverse media as...