Euripides’ Medea — Outline

Prologue (1-130) Nurse, Nurse and Paidagogos (Child-Minder), Medea (inside) children

Kommetic Parodos (131-213) — Chorus, Nurse, Medea (inside)

First Episode (214-409) — Medea and Chorus, Creon and Medea

First Stasimon (410-445) Reversals

Second Episode (446-626) — Jason and Medea — betrayal

Second Stasimon (627-662) — love and exile

Third Episode (663-823) — Aigeus and Medea; Medea — asylum > plans

3rd Stasimon (824-865)— Athens where it is always spring; child-murderess

Fourth Episode (866-975) — Jason and Medea — persuasion children

Fourth Stasimon (976-1002) — loss of hope, the picture of the bride, sorrow

Fifth Episode (1003-1080) — Medea and Paidagogos — Medea’s farewell to her children

Choral interlude (1081-1115) — the sorrows of being a parent

Fifth Episode continued (1116-1250) — Medea and messenger — deaths

Fifth Stasimon (1251-1292) — the deaths of the children with their voices as part of the ode!

Exodos (1293-1414) — Medea (from the mechane) and Jason

Choral tag (1415-1419) — cf choral tags of Alcestis and Bacchae