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of Colchis, “let him [her] destroy me, of if he [she] likes, boil me, or do whatever else he [she] wants, but he [she] must make me good” (285c). Unfortunately, goodness has to be self- willed. There is no Medean magic potion, wand or sorcery that will help us in our infinite odysseys.
In this tempestuous journey, we have experienced ‘Medea in love’ in Colchis and in the Argos journey; ‘Medea the sorceress’ in Iolcos (cauldron spas: Aeson and Pelias), ‘Medea, the scorned woman’ in Corinth (the other and transgressive female; powerless expatriate), ‘Medea with Impunity’ in Athens and beyond (Chariot escape to King Aegeus) and ‘Medea the Corinthian Male-Hero’ whose Achillean will, wrathful being, sparks the ideals of honour, of vengeance of heroic Greece and the scorching, stabbing losses of exilio y exilium:
Have I not heard the exile's sigh? And seen the exile's silent tear, Through distant climes condemn'd to fly, A pensive, weary wanderer here? Ah, hapless dame! no sire bewails, No friend thy wretched fate deplores, No kindred voice with rapture hails Thy steps within a stranger's doors.48
3⁄4 This is in.infinite Medea 3⁄4 Irridescent
& Perfectly Imperfect
48Byron. British Library Writers´Lives. Hours of Idleness. London: British Library, 2000.
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