... with nothing, and decided to take some sort of desperate action for retribution. Although the situations were completely different, both women committed some exceptionally irrational acts. Medea's love, Jason, leaves her for another woman; so she decides to kill everyone except Jason. Dido's love, Aeneas, leaves her because he has ... committed dreadful acts because they felt the pain of a broken heart. Both women at first wanted to just die and no longer feel the pain. Although Medea didn't kill herself, she spoke about it several times. For example in her first speech she mentions it s...

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... the traitor Demophon and his victim Phillis, about Achilles and Breseyda, Paris and Enone, Ercules and Dyanira, Theseus and Adriane, and, finally, Jason and his two victims "Isiphile and Medea (HF, ll. 388-426). The traitors share the same qualities: all appear to be travellers skilful in the art of love and rhetoric, in seducing women, breaking vows, and deserting ... ...

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