![]() ![]() ![]() What happens afterwards varies according to several accounts. Later, she murders her own sons by Jason before fleeing for Athens, where she eventually marries king Aegeus. In revenge, she murders Creusa with poisoned gifts. Medea and her sons by Jason are to be banished from Corinth. Euripides's 5th-century BCE tragedy Medea depicts the ending of her union with Jason, when after ten years of marriage, Jason abandons her to wed King Creon's daughter Creusa. Once he finished his quest, she abandons her native home of Colchis, and flees westwards with Jason, where they eventually settle in Corinth and marry. Medea plays the archetypal role of helper-maiden, aiding Jason in his search for the Golden Fleece by using her magic to save his life out of love. ![]() Medea is known in most stories as a sorceress and is often depicted as a priestess of the goddess Hecate. Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, appearing in Hesiod's Theogony around 700 BCE, but best known from Euripides's tragedy Medea and Apollonius of Rhodes's epic Argonautica. In Greek mythology, Medea ( / m ɪ ˈ d iː ə/ Ancient Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia, perhaps implying "planner / schemer") is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of the sun god Helios. ![]() Vary according to tradition (names include Alcimenes, Thessalus, Tisander, Mermeros, Pheres, Eriopis, Medus) Medea on her golden chariot, by Germán Hernández Amores ![]()
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