The List of Plot, including Complications

Inciting incident-  I agree that the inciting incident is definitely when Jason leaves Medea.  Not that Creon's offer didn't cause him to leave, but as Glen said, he had a choice.  This specific choice set the play we read into action.  Had the offer been the inciting incident, we would have a play about Jason's choices.  The stasis disrupted would have been Jason's view of his home, not the home that he leaves.  Beginning Exposition-  People generally have this covered.  Medea and Jason met when Jason sailed to find the Golden Fleece.  She helped him get it, and they fell in love.  However, they were exiled and came to live in Corinth, where they were accepted as equals of the people in the city and gained their place.  Creon is the ruler of Corinth and has a daughter, Glauce, whose hand in marriage was just offered to Jason by Creon.  Jason accepts this offer, beginning the story.  Also:  Medea is sneaky, possibly magical, and has two sons by Jason.  She is a descendent of the Sun God (Apollo/Hyperion), and this could possibly be Euripides' way of telling the audience not to mess with the Gods. Complications-  The goal of the central character (Medea) is to have her revenge on Jason for breaking his marriage oath to her.  The first and most obvious problem is tha Medea doesn't have much time to extract her revenge.  Though she is given one day, she has a very short period of time to do what she intends to do.  This is a climactic play, implied by the amount of time elapsing.  Another point of stress comes from Medea's safety as she is carrying out her plan and afterwards as well.  This complication is Aolved by Aegeus' promise of asylum in Athens in exchange for her "powers."  I'm not sure about other complications, maybe her children are a complication to her plan but it seems like they are simply another accessory to her plot.  Plus, if they are a complication she gets rid of said complication pretty easily. Crisis-  Not a lot to say, the person who did crisis covered what's going on.  The physical action that one would call the crisis is the poisoning of Glauce, which causes her and her father's deaths.  This leads to her full destruction of Jason's life. Climax/Reversal-  Again, already been said by others, but the climax is the realization of Medea's revenge.  She murders her children, his children, and thereby ends his legacy.  She emasculates Jason, here, by destroying his lineage, his blood line.  It seems that for most of the time before the play began Jason was always taking from Medea, but now the roles have reversed and she is the one taking from Jason.  The position of power has reversed.  Resolution-  So we have a newfound stasis in the play.  Jason loses his childen, fiancé and soon to be father in law, while Medea ascends into the heavens with the bodies of her children.  DO NOT mess with the Gods.