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See also: Greek See also: legend, a famous sorceress, daughter of Aeetes, See also: king of
See also: Colchis
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Having been thrown into prison by her See also: father, who was afraid of being injured by her See also: witchcraft, she escaped by means of her See also: art and fled to the See also: temple of Helios the See also: Sun-See also: god, her reputed grandfather
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She See also: fell in love with See also: Jason the Argonaut, who reached Colchis at this See also: time, and exacted a terrible revenge for his faithlessness (see ARGONAUTS and JASON)
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After the See also: murder of Jason's
second wife and her own See also: children, she fled from See also: Corinth in her See also: car See also: drawn by dragons, the gift of Helios, to Athens, where she married king See also: Aegeus, by whom she had a son, Medus
.
But the See also: discovery of an attempt on the See also: life of See also: Theseus, the son of Aegeus, forced her to leave Athens (See also: Apollodorus i
.
9, 28; See also: Pausanias ii
.
3, 6-11; Diod
.
Sic. iv
.
45, 46, 54-56)
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Accompanied by her son, she returned to Colchis, and restored her father to the See also: throne, of which he had been deprived by his own See also: brother Perses
.
Medus was regarded as the See also: eponymous See also: hero and progenitor of the Medes
.
See also: Medea was honoured as a goddess at Corinth, and was said to have become the wife of See also: Achilles in the Elysian See also: fields
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The chief seat of her cult, however, wasSee also: Thessaly, which was always regarded as the home of magic
.
As time went on her character was less favourably described
.
In the See also: case of Jason and the Argonauts, she plays the See also: part of a kindly, See also: good-natured fairy; See also: Euripides, however, makes her a barbarous priestess of Hecate, while the Alexandrian writers depicted her in still darker See also: colours
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Some authorities regard Medea as a lunar divinity, but the See also: ancient conception of her as a Thessalian sorceress is probably correct
.
The popularity of the See also: story of Jason and Medea in antiquity is shown by the large amount of literature on the subject
.
The See also: original story was probably contained in an old epic poem called Manias aotrlols, the authorship of which was ascribed to Prodicus of See also: Phocaea
.
It is given at some length in the See also: fourth Pythian ode of Pindar, and forms the subject of the Argonautica of See also: Apollonius Rhodius
.
There is a touching See also: epistle (Medea to Jason) in the Heroides of Ovid
.
Medea is the heroine of extant tragedies of Euripides and See also: Seneca; those of See also: Aeschylus and See also: Ennius (adapted from Euripides) are lost
.
Neophron of Sicyon and See also: Melanthius wrote plays of the same name
.
Among See also: modern writers on the same theme may be mentioned T
.
Corneille, F
.
See also: Grillparzer and M
.
Cherubini (See also: opera)
.
The See also: death of Glauce and the murder of her children by Medea Was frequently represented in ancient art
.
In the famous picture of Tomomachus of See also: Byzantium Medea is deliberating whether or not she shall kill her children; there are copies of this See also: painting in the mural decorations of See also: Herculaneum and See also: Pompeii
.
See Leon Mallinger, Medee: etude sur la litterature comparee, an account of Medea in Greek, See also: Roman, See also: middle age and modern literature (1898); and the articles in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also: des antiquites and Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie
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