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MEDEA (Gr. Mi/Seta) , in Greek legend, a famous sorceress, daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis. Having been thrown into prison by her father, who was afraid of being injured by her witchcraft, she escaped by means of her art and fled to the temple of Helios the Sun-god, her reputed grandfather. She fell in love with Jason the Argonaut, who reached Colchis at this time, and exacted a terrible revenge for his faithlessness (see ARGONAUTS and JASON). After the murder of Jason'ssecond wife and her own children, she fled from Corinth in her car drawn
gift of Helios, to Athens, where she married king Aegeus, by whom she had a son, Medus. But the discovery of an attempt on the life of Theseus, the son of Aegeus, forced her to leave Athens (Apollodorus i. 9, 28; Pausanias ii. 3, 6-11; Diod. Sic. iv. 45, 46, 54-56). Accompanied by her son, she returned to Colchis, and restored her father to the throne, of which he had been deprived by his own brother Perses. Medus was regarded as the eponymous hero and progenitor of the Medes. Medea
chief
home of magic. As time went on her character was less favourably described. In the case of Jason and the Argonauts , she plays the part of a kindly, good-natured fairy; Euripides, however, makes her a barbarous priestess of Hecate , while the Alexandrian writers depicted her in still darker colours. Some authorities regard Medea
original
Phocaea
Pindar
The death of Glauce and the murder of her children by Medea Was frequently represented in ancient art. In the famous picture of Tomomachus of Byzantium Medea is deliberating whether or not she shall kill her children; there are copies of this painting in the mural decorations of Herculaneum and Pompeii. See Leon Mallinger, Medee: etude sur la litterature comparee, an account of Medea in Greek, Roman, middle age and modern literature (1898); and the articles in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquites and Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie. End of Article: MEDEA (Gr. Mi/Seta) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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