LATIN SOURCES
Jason and Medea, Roman, 2nd c. CE
While the Greeks invented the myth of Jason, the story found some of its greatest popularity in Italy where first the Etruscans and then the Romans adopted it into their mythology. Latin writers developed their own versions of the Greek plays and epics about Jason and Medea, and these works provide a somewhat different viewpoint on the myth from their Hellenic counterparts.
LATIN FRAGMENTS AND EXCERPTS
References to the Argonauts in Cicero, Catullus, Pliny, and others.
SENECA'S MEDEA
The dark Roman interpretation of Euripides' play.
OVID
The Metamorphoses, Heroides, and Tristia.
VALERIUS FLACCUS' ARGONAUTICA
The unfinished Latin epic.
HYGINUS'S FABULAE
A handbook of mythology, preserving many variants.
HOSIDIUS GETA'S MEDEA CENTO
A version of the tragedy composed from quotations from Vergil.
JUSTIN'S EPITOME
Jason in Armenia and his unrecorded second voyage to Colchis.
LACANTIUS' SUMMARY OF OVID
A summary of Ovid's Metamorphoses that served as a mythological handbook.
DARES PHRYGIUS' HISTORY OF THE TROJAN WAR
The late Antique forgery that claimed to be an eyewitness account of the Trojan War.
References to the Argonauts in Cicero, Catullus, Pliny, and others.
SENECA'S MEDEA
The dark Roman interpretation of Euripides' play.
OVID
The Metamorphoses, Heroides, and Tristia.
VALERIUS FLACCUS' ARGONAUTICA
The unfinished Latin epic.
HYGINUS'S FABULAE
A handbook of mythology, preserving many variants.
HOSIDIUS GETA'S MEDEA CENTO
A version of the tragedy composed from quotations from Vergil.
JUSTIN'S EPITOME
Jason in Armenia and his unrecorded second voyage to Colchis.
LACANTIUS' SUMMARY OF OVID
A summary of Ovid's Metamorphoses that served as a mythological handbook.
DARES PHRYGIUS' HISTORY OF THE TROJAN WAR
The late Antique forgery that claimed to be an eyewitness account of the Trojan War.
