| A | B |
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| Aegeus | The King of Athens who promises Medea that she can live in his city-state |
| Glauce | the Princess of Corinth who marries the already married Jason |
| Hecuba | The Queen of Troy |
| Kassandra | Hecuba's crazy daughter who can forsee the future |
| Talthybios | The greek messenger in The Trojan Women |
| Jason | On the quest to find the Golden Fleece |
| Hercules | one of the Greek Heroes who joins jason on his quest to find the Golden Fleece |
| Astyanax | Hector's son |
| Helios | Medea's grandfather and the sun god |
| Creon | The King of Corinth |
| Andromache | Given to Achilles' son as a war prize |
| Polyxena | Hecuba's daughter who is killed and then buried with Achilles' body |
| Pelias | the King who ir murdered by his own daughters due to Medea's trickery |
| 50 | the number of children King Priam has |
| Agamemnon | He chooses Kassandra as a war prize |
| Odysseus | He chooses Hecuba as a war prize |
| Colchis | The country Medea hails from |
| two | the number of children Medea has |
| Dionysia | The name of a famous greek theater festival |
| Euripides | The author of The Trojan Women and Medea |
| Nurse | the character in medea who suspects from the beginning that Medea will harm her sons |
