Note 299 — Chapter V · EURIPIDES AND VASE PAINTING (continued 2)

As in the Medeia, nothing is said to indicate how the chariot was drawn. It is only from the monuments and later literary references (vid. Argum. to the Medeia and schol. on v. 1320) that one learns of the dragons; or is the utterance of Jason, vs. 1297 f., ἢ πτηνὸν ἆραι σῶμ’ ες αἰθέρος βάθος | εἰ μὴ τυράννων δώμασιν δώσειν δίκην | πέποιθ’, an intimation of the strange escape of the sorceress? How was Lyssa’s chariot drawn? Why not also by dragons?