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The Medea shelf

Medea, the princess of Colchis who knew every drug, as the Greeks told her story over six hundred years: in a victory song, a tragedy, a love spell, an epic, a history and a handbook of myth. All of them are in the press, and each one opens when readers press it.

ΠΠΙΝΔΑΡΟΣ
The Victory Odes
Pindar
462 BC · Pythian 4, the drug that saved Jason
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ΜΜΗΔΕΙΑ
Medea
Euripides
431 BC · Corinth, the robe and the crown
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ΦΦΑΡΜΑΚΕΥΤΡΙΑΙ
The Sorceress
Theocritus
c. 270 BC · a love spell as strong as Medea's
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ΑΑΡΓΟΝΑΥΤΙΚΑ
The Argonautica
Apollonius of Rhodes
c. 250 BC · the night Medea chose Jason
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ΔΔΙΟΔΩΡΟΣ
The Library of History, Book IV
Diodorus of Sicily
c. 30 BC · Hecate's daughters, Circe and Medea
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ΑΑΠΟΛΛΟΔΩΡΟΣ
The Library of Greek Myth
Apollodorus
1st–2nd century AD · the whole story in a few pages
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