In The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer omits the horrific details of Medea’s story, depicting her as an innocent victim of male betrayal: “This is the payment and reward that Medea received from Jason, even for her fidelity and kindness, as she loved him better than herself, I believe…” (16). In the Heroides, on the other hand, Ovid does not hide Medea’s crimes. And yet, Ovid’s depiction appears, on some level, more sympathetic than that of Chaucer. I believe this unlikely sympathy arises from Ovid’s emphasis on interiority. He reveals Medea’s psychological processes, in a sense, thus drawing the reader into the character’s mind and facilitating a form of identification.