on his quest without Medea's help, something that is pointed out and referenced many times in ancient texts and contemporary scholarly work. Other, non-literary traditions guided the vase-painters, and a localized, chthonic presence of Medea was propitiated with unrecorded emotional overtones at Corinth, at the sanctuary devoted to her slain children, or locally venerated elsewhere as a foundress of cities. Modern references: In his book, The Happiness Hypothesis, Social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, quotes Medea talking about her struggle between her love to Jason and obligation to her father, as an example for “The divided Self” and the conflict between Id and Superego: "I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong. Cultural depictions Written sources Ovid Heroides XII Metamorphoses VII, 1–450 Tristia iii.9 Euripides, Medea Neophron, Medea (fragments from the play) Hyginus, Fabulae 21–26 Pindar, Pythian Odes, IV Seneca: Medea (tragedy) Bibliotheca I, 23–28 Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica Gaius Valerius Flaccus Argonautica (epic) Herodotus, Histories I.2 and VII.62i Hesiod, Theogony 1000-2 Plautus, Pseudolus 869–871 See also Medusa Medea gene Gudrun References Bibliography Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Clauss, J. J. and S. I. Johnston (eds), Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy and Art. (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997). . Grant, Michael, and John Hazel.Who's Who in Classical Mythology. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973. Griffiths, Emma. Medea. London; New York: Routledge, 2006. Knox, B.M.W. Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theatre. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. McDermott, Emily, Euripides' Medea: The Incarnation of Disorder. (University Park, PA, Penn State University Press, 1985). . Mossman, Judith, Medea: Introduction, Translation and Commentary. Aris & Phillips, Warminster 2011) Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London (1873). "Medeia or Medea" Wygant, Amy. Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France: Stages and Histories, 1553–1797. (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007). Mythological Greek seers Greek mythological witches Princesses in Greek mythology Helios in mythology Metamorphoses characters Characters in the Argonautica Colchian characters in Greek mythology Women and death Fictional people from Georgia (country) Fictional filicides Medes Greek mythological priestesses Flying chariots Deeds of Eros