Talk:Medea

message: There is a problem in the last part of the Medea article. There it is said that Aegeas is father of Medus who is father of Theseus, which is not right. Medus is a brother of Theseus and the hate of Medea against Theseus is due to a conflict for the throne. I would put this version but I do not remember which author supports it. Can someone confirm? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.45.189.230 (talk • contribs) 00:31, 2 January 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Aegeas, Theseus, etc.

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the whole myths-harking-back-to-matriarchy-and-mother-goddesses, etc- the whole "das mutterrecht" thing- is so outdated. Does it really belong here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.235.227 (talk • contribs) 12:50, 27 April 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: das mutterrecht

message: for this marvellous article! Am involved with the preparation of a performance of "Médé" by Milhaud at "Musikhochschule Hamburg" in January/Februery 2006. And this article is a great help. (2005 11 24 10:00 CET)ko
that is nice but your words of appreciation do not belong here  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.233.73.41 (talk) 22:37, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks -  

message: Somebody should put up a disambugation page for Medea. I came from the Algeria page looking for the province Medea and came across this. The top of the page lists at least 2 other possible entries the page could link to.
Daemon 14:21, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambugation 

message: "Excited, the girls cut their father into pieces and threw them into a pot. Pelias did not survive." This seems kind of laconic, and, although amusing, not very encyclopedic. Kranak
for all the statement that we have, where are the authors to back up the evidence? I saw in the discussion that Medea's child Medus is linked as a brother to Theseus, but where is the support to back up such horrendous statement? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.103.168.75 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pelias pieces quote

message: I reckon Medeashould also be put under fictional serial killers, or femmes fatales.  You've got to admit, she is an extremely bad girl...
CO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.81.33.111 (talk • contribs) 06:58, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion 

message: We need to distinguish what happens in different myths.. which will require sourcing the info.  For example, in certain tellings, Medea kills her brother during her flight from home, while in others Jason does.  Ideally, we would distinguish them by event and source:  either by giving a synopsis of each source, or by telling the story overall and noting differences as they come up.  CC.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.15.121.40 (talk) 23:58, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Suggestion 

message: Six full paragraphs ("Medea was a devotee ... the country which was later called Media.") were copied verbatim from http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/medea.html.  The text was added by user Mattacampa on April 15, 2007.  The page at pantheon.org was written by James Hunter, and last edited April 24, 1999. --74.99.119.107 22:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I justed saw that, too.  I'm going to remove it.  --Joelmills 13:47, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism? 

message: I would like to propose the following improvements to the article.
1. Replace bad link just below the section Jason and Medea to a none existing picture of 
:"Image:John William Waterhouse, - Jason and Medea (1907).jpg|thumb|left|230px|Jason and Medea by John William Waterhouse (1907)."
to image shown here ------------------------>
:"Image:Medea-Sandys.jpg|thumb|left|230px|Media, 1868 painting by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys"
2. Revise the Reference section since it now has an "Unreferenced" tag on it calling for references,
===References===
====Primary sources====
*Ovid 
:: Heroides XII 
:: Metamorphoses VII, 1-450 
====Secondary sources====
*
I'll assume if I don't hear any objections until next year, then I will update and put in these improvements. --Doug talk 14:27, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixing the link to the image is good, adding primary sources is fine; an article in the Guardian is not a very good source for us when there are hundreds of peer-reviewed sources available. --Akhilleus (talk) 07:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed improvements 

message: ====Primary sources====
*Ovid 
:: Heroides XII 
:: Metamorphoses VII, 1-450 
====Secondary sources====
*
I'll assume if I don't hear any objections until next year, then I will update and put in these improvements. --Doug talk 14:27, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixing the link to the image is good, adding primary sources is fine; an article in the Guardian is not a very good source for us when there are hundreds of peer-reviewed sources available. --Akhilleus (talk) 07:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: References

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I'll assume if I don't hear any objections until next year, then I will update and put in these improvements. --Doug talk 14:27, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixing the link to the image is good, adding primary sources is fine; an article in the Guardian is not a very good source for us when there are hundreds of peer-reviewed sources available. --Akhilleus (talk) 07:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Secondary sources

message: Looks like no one's been here in a while. Ifnkovhg (talk) 03:22, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."WurmWoodeT 15:20, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did some notes, refs. 

message: This old computer game may be a good link to place as a mention in the "Medea in popular culture" section. -- œ™ 07:18, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Crypt of Medea]] 

message: As an art historian, I often find that images widely separated from the time and culture of the topic under discussion can be very misleading. All of the images in this article are 19th century and early 20th century interpretations of the Medea legend(s). While fascinating in their own right, presentation of these images as illustrative of the topic under discussion (i.e. ancient Greek myth) are pretty wide of the mark. I suggest searching for illustrations that provide ideas of how the ancients visualized the stories, or at least captions that comment on the disparity between the context of the images and that of the original stories.
There are many ancient examples, including a spectacular 5th/4th cent. BC vase now at the Cleveland Museum but contested by Italian authorities.
Just as there are sections for "Medea in cinema," "Medea in popular culture," etc., a topic on "Medea in the visual arts" could also provide an appropriate context for presentation of images drawn from various periods and cultural situations.Djacobs5 (talk) 03:47, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your comment, I agree with much of it. Sometimes ancient depictions are unavailable, for various reasons, so I hope you as an art historian will help Wikipedia obtain images that meet copyright requirements. One of the reasons that topics from classical mythology are notable is their continuance in the classical tradition, so I think it's fine to use historical interpretations of myths with these articles. For instance, T.P. Wiseman starts his recent book on Roman myths with a discussion of how Tiepolo's Triumph of Flora is based on Ovid's presentation of the Floralia, as a way of outlining what "classical tradition" is. I try to choose images based on the significance scholars have given them, when these are available for WP use, and will sometimes provide an "interpretational" caption with a footnote. I would also emphasize as you have that the captions should give a date and an aesthetic frame of reference. But again, I hope that someone with your knowledge can help by uploading free images for use. Cynwolfe (talk) 13:50, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And as an art historian, I don't agree. The the ancient mythological themes have been widely represented in modern time too and they are a valuable part of our culture. To insist that  ancient godesses and god's articles only be illustrated with  Greek and Roman  BC vases is cutting away centuries of cultural heritage. Hafspajen (talk) 13:23, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image selection 

message: I have a bachelor's in Classical Culture and I seem to recall that Medea is the basis of the word Medicine.  This is a terribly significant fact (if indeed a fact) that should be included (I am NOT a linguist).  The land she comes from is the current area of the Republic of Georgia which is bordered on the north by the Caucus mountains (sounds similar to where she is said to come from).  It is amusing in that she is not seen in a negative light by the Georgians and they see her as a great folk hero from their past.  The Georgians of the Caucus mountains even today will take sheep's fleece and put it under a spout from a flowing stream and allow gold dust to collect in the fleece (as the mud gets washed away).  This is very likely to be the historical source of the golden fleece myth and is fairly well accepted by Greek mythologists (though I have no way to cite this).  
I am not an editor, nor do I have any desire to edit this article.   I would however love to see someone dig into these areas and add them to the article with appropriate citations.  Thanks for all you folks do!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.176.235.65 (talk) 04:20, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medea the source of the word Medicine? 

message: 1.This deliberate murder of her children by Medea to be Euripides' invention.
2.No suggestion in evidence that Jason leaves Medea for another woman before the Medea (by Euripides)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Milangru (talk • contribs) 13:35, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Euripides' inventions 

message: 1. Diodorus Siculus in Bibliotheca Historica: she married an Asian king and bore Medus.
2. Pausanias' Description of Greece: she and her son Medus fled to Aria.
3. Strabo's Geographica and Justin's Epitoma Historiarum Philippicarum: she returned home and conquer neighboring lands with her husband Jason.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Milangru (talk • contribs) 17:21, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Final story about Medea 

message: Aeetes came from Corinth: It is said that the land of Ephyra or Ephyraea, which later was called Corinth, was given to Aeetes by his father Helius. Aeetes, however, did not remain in Corinth , but instead emigrated to Colchis, the land at the eastern end of the Black Sea. Medea’s rule at Corinth is hereditary through her father Aeetes. Medea, as the daughter of Aeetes, inherited the kingdom after Corinthus died childless. When Medea lost her children, she passed on the kingdom to Sisyphus and his sons. Medea becomes the linchpin that makes possible the orderly succession of rulers from Helius to Sisyphus. As for Medea and her children, the cult of Hera Acraea, located at Perachora, the promontory jutting out into the Gulf of Corinth just north of the isthmus, helped protect mothers in pregnancy and the children who might die in the first years of life. Homer mentions Sisyphus as King of Ephyra in Iliad 6.152, 210, and Pausanias reports that he rescued Melicertes, helped establish the Isthmian Games, and was buried on the isthmus; and Medea and her children were central to the cult of Hera Acraea.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Milangru (talk • contribs) 14:26, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medea included in the list of Corinthian rulers 

message: In Corinth Medea was worshipped as a national heroine. She is supposed to have saved the city from a famine. Corinth and Athens were more or less arch-enemies. It is therefore hardly a coincidence that it is from athenian dramatists and others that the darkest things about Medea stem; like her murdering her own children - and her alleged attempted murder of Theseus, National heros of Athens!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.130.31.203 (talk) 09:51, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medea is the national heroine of Corinth vilified by athenians 

message: That is all.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.173.123.100 (talk) 16:46, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article lacks an infobox 

message: "[A] feminist interpretation of the Greek tragedy suggest[s] that Medea had never killed her children and was only blamed for it by patriarchal traditions", per , p. 268.  
Should this be mentioned in this article?  
It's just sufficiently quirky that I felt a need to mention it here before I changed the article.  Thanks to all who have brought this article to this point.  DavidMCEddy (talk) 12:50, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did she kill her children?