... . He does not know his engagement only earns him the right to die sooner. The Chorus then turns to the powerfully built Creon, king of Thebes. When he was younger, and Oedipus ruled, he was an art patron. The death of Oedipus and his sons bound him to the weary duties of rule. Next to the sisters' Nurse sits the good Queen Eurydice. She knits and will go on knitting ... until the time comes for her to go to her room ... and die. The Messenger stands against the wall ... ...

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... the expository soliloquy of the Nurse and later in the various dialogues of Medea, especially the ones uttered at the occasion of her first and then the last encounter with Jason. Medea, a barbarian' in the eyes of the civilised' Greeks, was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis - an Asian land - and the granddaughter of Helios, the Sun god. Jason, a Thessalian hero, was the rightful inheritor of the ... them into exile. Jason's desire to reclaim his throne having been dashed for good, they now went to settle in Corinth. Creon, the King of Corinth, had no son to succeed him. He found in...

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