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1) Prologue
2) Parode
i)Strophê (Turn)
ii)Antistrophê (Counter-Turn)
iii)Epode (After-Song)
3)Episode
4)Stasimon.
5)Exode
PLOT STRUCTURE OF MEDEA
1) Prologue
Nurse
How I wish the Argo's sails had never swept through
the dark blue Clashing Rocks into the land of the Colchians;
I wish the pine trees had never fallen
in the groves of Pelion, cut down to put oars in the hands
of the heroes who went after the golden fleece
for Pelias. Then my mistress Medea would not
have sailed to the fortress of Iolcus' land,
her heart battered by love for Jason.
2) Parode
Chorus
I heard the sound of laments, full of despair;
she cries out shrill sad sounds of mourning
at the betrayer of her marriage-bed, her evil husband.
For the injustice she suffers, she invokes
Themis keeper of oaths, daughter of Zeus,
who brought her
into Greece from a faraway land
over the sea by night
through Pontus' gate, hard to pass.
3) Episodes
Chorus
Now I have no more hopes for the children's life —
no more. They go now to murder.
The bride will receive the gifts, the poor woman will take
the doom of the golden diadem;
onto her golden hair she will put Death's
adornment, taking it in her own hands.
(4th stasimon)
4) Exode
Chorus
Of many things Zeus in Olympus is keeper,
many are the things the gods bring about against all reason,
and what is looked for does not happen after all,
yet a god finds a way for the unexpected.
That is how this story has ended.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN PLOT STRUCTURE
REFERENCES
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/Classes/US210/Greek-play.html