HKB
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Often appears with: the fear of death · suicidal temptation · poison and healing drugs · magic, witchcraft, and the occult · hera's intervention
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · lament (1) · resignation (1)
Medea considers suicide with drugs in a casket, but Hera’s prompting and fear of Hades reverse her decision, leading her to wait for dawn to give Jason the promised charms.
Far better would it be for me to forsake life this very night in my chamber by some mysterious fate, escaping all slanderous reproach, before I complete such nameless dishonour." She spake, and brought a casket wherein lay many drugs, some for healing, others for killing, and placing it upon her knees she wept. And she drenched her bosom with ceaseless tears, which flowed in torrents as she sat, bitterly bewailing h…