i am medea a wife a mother an enchantress and a woman contemplating a terrible crime the murder of my children why the age-old reason romantic betrayal my sorcery has helped my husband jason steal the golden fleece from my father and in making our escape i slew my own brother but now here in corinth jason has turned to glauke daughter of king crayon the two are to marry and i medea abandoned by jason and an exile in a foreign land i'm cast into torment and i seed stronger than a lover's love is a lover's hate so
i will make jason pay let no one think of me as humble or weak or passive i'd sooner stand in the front line of battle three times than suffer childbirth once king crayon has exiled me with one day's grace faking good intentions i prepare a deadly gift for glaucey a poisoned dress and crown to be presented to her by my sons jason's new love will die but what would hurt more losing his sons hate is a bottomless cup and i will poor and poor a messenger arrives the plan has worked glauke has perished and her
father too poisoned by a loving embrace now my children a dark deed but my judgment cannot check my anger that which incites the greatest evils humans do next to athens aided by a gift from my grandfather helios the sun god as for you my husband your life was folly you'll die like the fool you are and so ends our sorry story yours and mine [Music] get more from the open university check out the links on screen now
