The mountainous nature of the landscape has encouraged coastal Greek states to look out to sea. Over the past centuries this has caused the populations here to form several hundred tiny city-states. The region of Greece and the Aegean Sea is fragmented into steep mountains and valleys, as well as many small islands. She intends to punish Creon, the Princess, and Jason for the way they have mistreated her. When Creon is gone, Medea laughs at him and calls him a fool for allowing her to stay. Eventually she manages to get him to agree to give her a single day in which to plan where she and the children will go in their exile.
She tries to convince him she is harmless, but he will not relent. He tells her he fears she will cause him and his daughter harm. Soon, the king, Creon, arrives to give Medea her sentence of banishment. Medea comes out to speak to the Chorus of her troubles. The Nurse and Tutor leave and the Chorus of Corinthian women assemble outside Medea's house, saying that it heard Medea cry. She sends the children inside where, from offstage, Medea addresses them, saying she wishes they were dead and cries aloud in her grief. The Nurse says she fears for the children and doesn't like the way Medea has been looking at them. He tells the Nurse what he heard outside Medea's house.
These threats reach Creon at the palace where the children's Tutor overhears that Creon intends to exile Medea from Corinth. Medea is infuriated by Jason's abandoning her and their children, and makes threats to kill Creon and the Princess. She did not restore him, and Jason and Medea were chased from Iolocus to Corinth, where they lived as exiles. Medea managed to trick Pelias' daughters into killing him by promising that, if they did, she could restore him to his youth. In Iolocus, she and Jason hatched a plot to steal rulership from the king, Pelias. While she and Jason were fleeing Clochis by boat, Medea killed her brother so that those pursuing them would have to stop and bury his body. Aphrodite, goddess of love, made Medea fall in love with Jason and then help him to steal the Golden Fleece.
The Golden Fleece was guarded by a dragon in Medea's homeland, the Island of Clochis. In the midst of her lamentations, the Nurse recounts how Jason left his homeland, Iolocus, in a ship called the Argo to find a treasure called the Golden Fleece. The tragedy of Medea begins in medias res (in the middle of things). Medea's Nurse bemoans Medea's fate-she has been abandoned with her two young children by her husband, Jason, who has married the Princess, daughter of Creon, king of Corinth.
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