Medea

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Medea Greek A sorceress; daughter of KingAeetes of Colchis (Asia Minor); niece of Circe, thewitch of the Odyssey. In his quest for the GoldenFleece, Jason fell in love with Medea, who helpedhim capture the precious fleece.As Jason and Medea fled with the prize, theywere pursued by Aeetes, the father of Medea and herbrother, Absyrtus. In one version of the story, Medeakilled her brother and threw pieces of him behindthem on the road, knowing that Aeetes would stopto pick up his dismembered son. Thus she and Jasonescaped from the angry king.Medea returned to Iolcus (Thessaly) with Jason.Her first deed was to destroy Pelias, the king whohad taken over the throne of Iolcus from Jason'sfather. Medea suggested to the daughters of Peliasthat, if they killed him, cut him up into smallpieces, and cooked him in a stew, he would then berejuvenated. She demonstrated her idea by cuttingand cooking a ram and, by the use of magic, makinga lamb spring forth from the pot. The daughters didas she suggested but, of course, Pelias did not survive.The people were so horrified at this deed that Jasonand Medea had to flee the country.Jason and Medea settled for a while in Corinth.Jason deserted Medea for Glauca, daughter of theCorinthian king Creon. Medea killed Glauca by sendingher a wedding dress saturated with poison. Medeaalso killed the two sons she had borne with Jason, thenfled to the court of King Aegeus of Athens.When the hero Theseus arrived at his father'scourt, Medea tried to murder him with a goblet ofpoisoned wine. Just in time, Aegeus recognized hisson and dashed the cup from his hands.Medea fled from Athens and there is no record ofwhere she went next. Some legends say that her son,Medus, was the ancestor of the Medes, an ancientpeople of Asia Minor.The poet Euripides wrote a famous tragedy aboutMedea, first produced in 431 b.c. Medea has been thesubject of numerous plays and operas.