美狄亚__EURIPIDES.pdf

英文名著3000 本 430 BC MEDEA by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge 1 英文名著3000 本 CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY NURSE OF MEDEA ATTENDANT ON HER CHILDREN MEDEA CHORUS OF CORINTHIAN WOMEN CREON, King of Corinth JASON AEGEUS, King of Athens MESSENGER THE TWO SONS OF JASON AND MEDEA 2 英文名著3000 本 MEDEA MEDEA (SCENE:-Before MEDEAs house in Corinth, near the palace Of CREON. The NURSE enters from the house.) NURSE AH! WOULD to Heaven the good ship Argo neer had sped its course to the Colchian land through the misty blue Symplegades, nor ever in the glens of Pelion the pine been felled to furnish with oars the chieftains hands, who went to fetch the golden fleece for Pelias; for then would my own mistress Medea never have sailed to the turrets of Iolcos, her soul with love for Jason smitten, nor would she have beguiled the daughters of Pelias to slay their father 3 英文名著3000 本 and come to live here in the land of Corinth with her husband and children, where her exile found favour with the citizens to whose land she had come, and in all things of her own accord was she at one with Jason, the greatest safeguard this when wife and husband do agree; but now their love is all turned to hate, and tenderest ties are weak. For Jason hath betrayed his own children and my mistress dear for the love of a royal bride, for he hath wedded the daughter of Creon, lord of this land. While Medea, his hapless wife, thus scorned, appeals to the oaths he swore, recalls the strong pledge his right hand gave, and bids heaven be witness what requ