Medea

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.

  1. O hapless mother, surely thou hast a heart of stone or steel
  2. to slay the offspring of thy womb by such a murderous doom.
Chorus
  1. Of all the wives of yore I know but one who laid her hand upon her children dear, even Ino,[*](This is Euripides’ version of the legend, not the usual one; which makes Athamas the father go mad and kill one son, while Ino leaps into the sea with the other.) whom the gods did madden in the day