<P> While Medea is pleased with her current success she decides to take it one step forward . Since Jason brought shame upon her for trying to start a new family, Medea resolves to destroy the family he was willing to give up by killing their sons . Medea does have a moment of hesitation when she considers the pain that her children's deaths will put her through . However, she steels her resolve to cause Jason the most pain possible and rushes offstage with a knife to kill her children . As the chorus laments her decision, the children are heard screaming . Jason then rushes onto the scene to confront Medea about murdering Creon and Glauce and he quickly discovers that his children have been killed as well . Medea then appears above the stage with the bodies of her children in the chariot of the sun god Helios . When this play was put on, this scene was accomplished using the mechane device usually reserved for the appearance of a god or goddess . She confronts Jason, reveling in his pain at being unable to ever hold his children again: </P> <P> I do not leave my children's bodies with thee; I take them with me that I may bury them in Hera's precinct . And for thee, who didst me all that evil, I prophesy an evil doom . </P> <P> She escapes to Athens with the bodies . The chorus is left contemplating the will of Zeus in Medea's actions: </P> <P> Manifold are thy shapings, Providence! / Many a hopeless matter gods arrange / What we expected never came to pass / What we did not expect the gods brought to bear / So have things gone, this whole experience through! </P>

Where does medea go at the end of the play