Shakespeare's Myths
Apollodorus. The Library, I, ix, 23-28.
Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica.
Diodorus Siculus. The Library of History, IV, 45-56.
Euripides. Medea.
Hyginus. Fabulae, XXII-XXVI.
Ovid. Heroides, VI, “Hypsipyle to Jason”, 19-20, 75, 81-108, 125-38, 149-64; XII, “Medea to Jason”; XVII, “Helen to Paris”, 229-33.
Ovid. Metamorphoses VII, 1-424.
Ovid. Tristia III, ix, 1-34.
Pausanias. Description of Greece, II, iii, 6-11; II, xii, 1; V, xviii, 3; VIII, xi, 3.
Pindar. Fourth Pythian Ode.
Plutarch. Life of Theseus.
Seneca. Medea.
Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica.
How to cite
Katherine Heavey. “Medea.” 2014. In A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Classical Mythology
(2009-), ed. Yves Peyré. http://www.shakmyth.org/myth/149/medea/classical+sources
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