M

Macries, 149 , 157

Magnesia, 88 –102 passim

Mariandyni, 94

Medea:

invaluable assistance of, 3 , 82n 44, 84 , 124 –26, 173 –74, 176 , 204 ;

her future dealings with Jason, 4 , 9 , 89 , 98 ;

her love for Jason, 10 ;

her departure from Colchis, 17 , 126 ;

her future abandonment by Jason, 54 , 97 , 212;

her association with Artemis, 55n 30;

birth of son, Medeius, to, 98 –100;

frightening nature of, 104n 30;

her comparison with Hypsipyle, 128 , 146 ;

murder of Apsyrtus by, 172n 48;

comparison of with Hylas, 193

Medeius, 98 –101

Medes/Persians, 99 –100

Melampus, 31 –32, 72n 30

Meleager, 29 , 129n 34

Menelaus, 76

Mentor, 76

Merops, 148 , 154 , 155

Meter, 150 , 151 , 167 –69

Minyadae, 26 –35 passim

Mnestheus, 207

Molorchus, 15 , 29n 15

Mopsus, 29 , 164 –67, 171

Muses, 17 –25 passim

Myrine, 103 , 108 –45 passim , 144

Myrtilus, 126

Mysia, 5 , 94 , 107 , 146 , 151 , 176 –202 passim

Mytilene, 176n 1