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In Greek mythology, Medea (/ m ɪ ˈ d iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Μήδεια, romanized: Mḗdeia; lit. ' planner, schemer ') [1] is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis.In the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, she aids Jason in his search for the Golden Fleece.
Jason (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ s ən / JAY-sən; Ancient Greek: Ἰάσων, romanized: Iásōn [i.ǎːsɔːn]) was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece is featured in Greek literature.
She married Jason and used her magic powers and advice to help him find and retrieve the golden fleece. The play is set in Corinth some time after Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece, where he met Medea. The play begins with Medea in a blind rage towards Jason for arranging to marry Glauce, the daughter of king Creon. The nurse, overhearing ...
Jocasta, mother and wife of Oedipus; Medea, a sorceress and wife of Jason, who killed her own children to punish Jason for his infidelity; Medusa, a mortal woman transformed into a hideous gorgon by Athena; Niobe, a daughter of Tantalus who declared herself to be superior to Leto, causing Artemis and Apollo to kill her fourteen children
In Greek mythology, Aeson (/ ˈ iː s ɒ n /; [1] Ancient Greek: Αἴσων Aísōn) was a king of Iolcus in Thessaly.He was the father of the hero Jason.According to one version of the story, he was imprisoned by his half-brother Pelias, and when Pelias intended to kill him he committed suicide.
Presents from Medea to Creusa from a Lucanian red-figure bell-krater, ca. 390 BC. From Apulia. (Louvre Museum, Paris) In Greek mythology, Creusa (/ k r i ˈ uː s ə /; Ancient Greek: Κρέουσα Kreousa "princess" ) or Glauce (/ ˈ ɡ l ɔː s i /; Γλαυκή "blue-gray"), Latin Glauca, was a princess of Corinth as the daughter of King Creon.
Alcimede’s father was King Phylacus, [2] eponymous founder of Phylace, and sister of Iphiclus [3] and Clymenus.. She was the mother of Jason by Aeson, King of Iolcus. [4] She met Aeson in the caves below Iolcus in Thessaly, a chthonic lair where the rightful king Aeson had been imprisoned by his evil half-brother Pelias.
As he lay dying, Nessus told the wife of Heracles, Deianeira, that a shirt stained with his blood would insure the faithfulness of her husband. [2] She gave the shirt, a chiton , to Heracles, and when he put it on, the poisoned shirt began to burn him so much, that he made his own funeral pyre and leaped upon it.