A sketch for Medea by John Waterhouse, 1906-07

A sketch for Medea by John Waterhouse, 1906-07

Often her heart fluttered wildly in her breast. As when a sunbeam which is reflected out of water that has just been poured into a bowl or a bucket, dances inside a house and darts this way and that as it is shaken in a rapid swirl, so did the young girl’s heart quiver in her breast.

– Apollonius of Rhodes, trans. Richard Hunter, Argonautica