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JASON, MEDEA, AND THE ARGONAUTS^601


an attempt to retrace the journey, see T. Severin, The Jason Voyage: The Quest for the
Golden Fleece (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985).


  1. For a discussion of some literary and artistic interpretations, see James J. Clauss and
    Sarah lies Johnston, eds., Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and
    Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).

  2. Michael Grant, Myths of the Greeks and Romans (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
    1962; New York: Mentor Books, 1964), p. 302 of the London edition. A modern verse
    epic is by John Gardner, Jason and Medeia (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973).

  3. Robinson Jeffers, Medea (New York: Random House, 1946), p. 25.

  4. For the problem in reconciling the oracle received by Aegeus with Medea's promise
    to cure him of childlessness, see p. 355 with note 14, on p. 571.

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