Definitions

1. Medea, the sorceress, who had fled from Corinth after her separation from Jason, had become the wife of AEgeus, the father of Theseus. (Web site)
2. Medea, an exile from Corinth, came to Athens to the hospitality of Aegeus, son of Pandion, and married him; to him Medus was born.
3. Medea, the curse of Pelias 1, is the princess, priestess, and witch, whom Jason brought to Hellas on his return from Colchis.
4. Medea, a famous sorceress of Colchis who married Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and aided him in getting possession of the golden fleece.
5. Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, and is most often described as a priestess of Hecate. (Web site)

Iolcus

1. Having been expelled from Iolcus, Jason and Medea settled in Corinth, where they are said to have lived happily for ten years.
2. On Pelias 1's death, his son Acastus, who succeeded his father as king of Iolcus, expelled both Jason and Medea from the city.
3. Then Jason marries Medea and they live happily ever after as King and Queen of Iolcus, while Atalanta remains sad about her and Jason not being together.

Exile

1. Pelias' son, Acastus, drove Jason and Medea into exile for the murder, and the couple settled in Corinth.
2. When Medea tricked his sisters in murdering their father, Acastus drove Jason and Medea into exile for causing his father's death. (Web site)

Chorus

1. The Chorus also lead us to through sympathy for Medea to accept her decision of taking revenge on princess Glauce and Jason. (Web site)
2. Medea, and the chorus of Corinthian women, do not buy his story. (Web site)
3. The Chorus of Corinthian women enters, full of sympathy for Medea. (Web site)

Rejoicing

1. For the etymology of his name Robert Graves (The Greek Myths) offers ganuesthai + medea, "rejoicing in virility." Ganymede - Story. (Web site)

Rejuvenated

1. Medea persuaded Pelias that he could be rejuvenated by having pieces of his body boiled in a magical brew.

Hopelessness

1. Medea, powerful and skilled with drugs and magic, sees the hopelessness of the task and prays to Hekate.

Tv Movie

1. Lars Von Trier 's (1988) made for TV movie entitled Medea depicts Udo Kier as Jason after he has retrieved the Golden Fleece.

Great Stone

1. Medea told Jason that when they arose out of the earth he was to cast a great stone amongst them. (Web site)

Death

1. Medea then completed her revenge by killing her own two children; in another version of the legend the angered citizens of Corinth stoned them to death. (Web site)
2. But concerning the death of Jason it is also told that Medea foretold that the wreckage of the Argo would fall upon Jason and kill him.
3. Bk VII:159-178. He is near death, so Jason asks Medea to renew his life. (Web site)

Own Brother

1. Then, to buy time during their escape, Medea killed her own brother and tossed the pieces of his corpse behind the Argo as they sailed for Greece. (Web site)
2. The nurse recounts how Medea aided Jason in his exploits, even killing her own brother to help Jason escape.

Grief

1. But grief and wrath took hold of Medea when she heard of this resolve. (Web site)

Young Bride

1. Medea took revenge by giving the young bride a poisoned gown which stuck to Creusa's body the moment she wore it and burned her to death. (Web site)

Brother

1. She then escaped with Jason, killing her brother in order to scatter his body on the sea so that Aeetes would have to hold up his pursuit of Jason and Medea.
2. In order to delay the pursuit, Medea killed her brother and cut his body into pieces, scattering the parts behind the ship.
3. Medea sent a message to her brother and told him that she would meet him on an island with the Golden Fleece. (Web site)

Iphitus

1. Fleeing from Jason, Medea made her way to Thebes where she healed Heracles (the former Argonaut) for the murder of Iphitus.
2. Fleeing from Jason, Medea made her way to Athens where she healed Heracles (the former Argonaut) for the murder of Iphitus.

Magical Arts

1. Medea had Hecate's foresight and wisdom, Circe her gift of the magical arts. (Web site)

Oedipus

1. Neither episode has the singular passion of Medea, nor the clarity and sense of inevitability offered by Sophocles in Oedipus. (Web site)
2. Thus the suffering of Job and Oedipus, of Orestes and Antigone and Medea, makes a difference. (Web site)
3. Agamemnon and his children, Oedipus, Jason, Medea, etc.) took on their classic form in these tragedies. (Web site)

Tragic Hero

1. The play is notable in that either Medea or Jason can be viewed as the tragic hero. (Web site)
2. Medea from Euripides's play Medea and Clytemnestra from Aeschylus's play Agamemnon display and share traits common to a tragic hero. (Web site)

Arete

1. When Arete heard this from her husband, she sent word to Jason, and he lay with Medea by night in a cave.

Alcinous

1. When Arete asked him what judgment he would give, Alcinous replied that if Medea were a virgin, he would give her to her father, but if not, to her husband.
2. But some came to the Phaeacians, and finding the Argo there, they demanded of Alcinous that he should give up Medea.

Magic Spells

1. Medea vanishes in a mist conjured by her magic spells. (Web site)

Enchantments

1. She, with her sisters, put her father to death that he might be restored to youth and vigour by Medea, who had prom- ised to ettect this by her enchantments. (Web site)
2. She told Medea that one day she would meet a woman who knew nothing about enchantments but who had much human wisdom. (Web site)

Consent

1. Medea pretended to consent, and prepared her cauldron as before. (Web site)
2. Medea now consulted Jason, and, with his consent, carried out the following stratagem. (Web site)

Caldron

1. Medea pretended to consent, and prepared her caldron as before.

Throne

1. Rather than win Jason his throne, this move forced Jason, Medea, and their children into exile. (Web site)
2. Back in Greece, the king keeps the throne, the fleece has no power, and Medea lives an exile's life, respected but feared, abandoned by Jason. (Web site)

King Creon

1. Glauke, daughter of king Creon, was the reason why Jason deserted Medea.

Bride

1. Medea has killed her brother; she kills her husband�s new bride; and later she kills her children. (Web site)
2. Medea could not understand her husband's decision and tried to killed the bride by sending the her a poisoned robe.

Corinthians

1. Afterwards, when Corinthus, the son of Marathon, died childless, the Corinthians sent for Medea from Iolcus and bestowed upon her the kingdom. (Web site)
2. Upon the death of Corinthus, they say, the Corinthians sent for Medea.

Thessalus

1. In Greek mythology, Thessalus was the son of Jason and Medea and the twin of Alcimenes. (Web site)

Luigi Cherubini

1. Luigi Cherubini composed the opera Médée in 1797 and it is Cherubini's best known work, but better known by its Italian title, Medea.
2. Médée (French), or Medea (Italian, German, English), is an opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini.

Iolkos

1. After various adventures, Jason returns to Iolkos, with the Golden Fleece and Medea, the daughter of Aietes, the Kolchian ruler.
2. Medea, who first made Jason promise that he would take her back to Iolkos as his wife, gave him a magic ointment to rub over his body. (Web site)

Marie Christine

1. Michael John LaChiusa scored " Marie Christine," a Broadway musical with heavy opera influence based on the story of Medea.

Drugged

1. When Aeëtes still refused to relinquish the fleece, Medea revealed its hiding place and drugged the guardian dragon.
2. When Aeëtes still refused to relinquish the fleece, Medea revealed its hiding place and drugged the guardian dragon. (Web site)
3. When Ae�tes still refused to relinquish the fleece, Medea revealed its hiding place and drugged the guardian dragon.

Aea

1. She asked Medea to devise a way by which they could escape with the stranger from Aea. (Web site)

Witch Medea

1. They were yoked to draw the chariot of the witch Medea. (Web site)

Witch

1. When Jason and the Argonauts came to fetch the fleece, the beast was either slain by the hero or put to sleep by the witch Medea. (Web site)
2. The witch Medea of Colchis called herself a daughter of Hekate and invoked her mother for success in her magical arts. (Web site)
3. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on February 6, 1880 in Pola and was named after the witch Medea in Greek mythology. (Web site)

Sacred Grove

1. I shall come on board and lead you to the sacred grove where the Golden Fleece hangs." The heroes rowed quietly as Medea guided them.

Tes

1. When Aeëtes found both the fleece and his daughter missing, he gave chase in another ship, but Medea had foreseen this. (Web site)

Own Sons

1. Medea is pleased with her revenge thus far, but resolves to carry it further: to utterly destroy Jason's plans for a new family, she will kill her own sons.
2. Medea then kills her own sons by Jason, and flees his wrath. (Web site)
3. Medea immediately recognized Theseus as Aegeus' son, so she decided to destroy him in order that her own sons would inherit the throne.

Enchantress

1. After many adventures (see Argonaut) Jason abstracted the fleece with the help of the enchantress Medea, whom he married.
2. Known to Jason as Antiokus, Merlin is present when the enchantress Medea kills Jason's two sons and absconds with the bodies. (Web site)
3. Sailing with his companions to the easternmost shore of the Black Sea, Jason wins the Fleece with the aid of Medea, a barbarian princess and enchantress. (Web site)

King Aegeus

1. After she had fled to Athens in a chariot pulled by dragons, Medea married king Aegeus, Theseus father.
2. Medea persuaded King Aegeus to serve Theseus poisoned wine. (Web site)

High Priestess

1. Medea, high priestess of the Golden Fleece, falls in love with Jason, and, stealing the prized article, flees with him to Corinth. (Web site)
2. On the other side, they pick up the few survivors of the other ship, including Medea (Nancy Kovack), the high priestess of the goddess Hecate. (Web site)
3. The robe she puts on is in fact that which Medea wore when she served as High Priestess. (Web site)

Argonautica

1. The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous Colchian princess, Medea.
2. In the Argonautica, Medea hypnotizes him from the Argo, driving him mad so that he dislodges the nail and dies (Argonautica 4.1638).

King Pelias

1. In Iolcos, Medea contrived the murder of King Pelias, after which she and Jason fled to Corinth.

Medes

1. The Greeks knew of the Medes and Persians at an early date and they both appear in Greek mythology as Perseus and Medea. (Web site)

Antiquated

1. This abode of the Medes was known in Greek as Media or Medea (Μηδία; adjective Median, antiquated also Medean). (Web site)
2. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea (Μηδία, Old Persian Māda; adjective Median, antiquated also Medean).
3. This area is known as Media (also Medea; Greek Μηδία, Old Persian Māda; the English adjective is Median, antiquated also Medean).

Own Children

1. Medea resolves to kill her own children as well, not because the children have done anything wrong, but because she feels it is the best way to hurt Jason. (Web site)
2. Medea takes revenge by killing her own children by Jason. (Web site)
3. When Jason deserted Medea for Creon's daughter, Medea killed her own children by Jason. (Web site)

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