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Medea too is full of event and very little overt thinking. The son, Jason, grows up--in the space of about three cuts--and goes to reclaim the usurped kingdom of Corinth from his uncle, King Creon. The uncle sends him off to Colchis, a land of magic, to win the Golden Fleece, and when Jason returns with it tells him that he doesn't feel like keeping his promise. Jason also brings back with him Medea, a daughter of the king of Colchis...
Medea comes from Colchis and is something of a sorceress. In Corinth, she loses her powers although it is never quite clear exactly what they were. In the same way the Golden Fleece loses its meaning, as Jason ruefully admits to King Creon when he presents it to him. The earthly, naturalistic life in Colchis with its many bloody rituals is contrasted to the more civilized life of Corinth, where people live in houses and walk on tended lawns. Medea, more pagan than Jason, misses her old life, and Jason, who neglects her, is little comfort. Using what little magic...
Antigone wants only to perform the ritual of burying her dead brother Polynices. But he has died fighting against Thebes, and the city-state's tyrant, Creon, orders that the body lie unburied. Blind as his predecessor Oedipus, Creon unknowingly flouts the gods in his overweening pride. Moreover, Antigone is Oedipus' daughter. In Greek tragedy, the mills of the gods grind from generation to generation. Antigone buries her brother at the cost of her life, and Creon forfeits the lives of his son and his wife to the gods' anger...
...revival at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater is of Olympian stature, the finest work that has ever been done there. In voice and bearing, Philip Bosco's Creon is an image of power and arrogance until he receives his terrible rebuke. Martha Henry's Antigone is a female javelin seeking death and wielding it. The myth may say that Prometheus stole fire and gave it to men. Actually, he gave it to women like Antigone and her formidable sisters, Medea and Electra and Helen...
...Henry David Thoreau. His eloquent thought has motivated some of the most courageous acts of civil disobedience, defiance and demonstration against injustice in any form since Antigone resisted Creon...