Medea's Escape Vase

• The Medea Escape Vase is dated c. 400 BC
• The Media Escape Vase was found in south italy
• The Medea Escape Vase shows

  • Medea in a flying chariot
  • Winged Furies
  • Jason looking at Medea
  • Medea's dead children
• Medea's Escape Vase was made after Euripides' play Medea
• The stage devices that the Medea Vase suggests are

  • the Mechane (Medea's chariot)
  • the Ekkyklema (alter )
• The Medea Escape Vase is useful because it shows

  • Elaborate costume
  • Suggestion of stage equipment
  • The Vase was made after Euripides play
  • Jason and Medea's implied dioaloge
• The limitations of the Medea Escape Vase

  • Furies are not in Euripides' play
  • Medea took her children's bodies in Euripides' play
  • Tragic costumes did not usually have bare chests
  • Found in south Italy
• Name the Figures

  A) Medea

  B) Jason

  C) Nurse

  D) Children

  E) Fury