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Medea in a fresco from Herculaneum. Medea is a direct descendant of the sun god Helios (son of the Titan Hyperion) through her father King Aeëtes of Colchis.According to Hesiod (Theogony 956–962), Helios and the Oceanid Perseis produced two children, Circe and Aeëtes. [5]
In Greek mythology, Mermerus (Ancient Greek: Μέρμερος, Mérmeros) and Pheres (Ancient Greek: Φέρης, Phéres) were the sons of Jason and Medea. They were killed either by the Corinthians [1] or by Medea, [2] for reasons that vary depending on the rendition. In one account, Mermerus was killed by a lioness while hunting. [3]
[10] A common urban legend claimed that Euripides put the blame on Medea because the Corinthians had bribed him with a sum of five talents. [ 11 ] In the 4th century BC, South-Italian vase painting offers a number of Medea representations that are connected to Euripides' play — the most famous is a krater in Munich.
Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches by Henry Fuseli. The Three Witches first appear in Act 1, Scene 1, where they agree to meet later with Macbeth. In Act 1, Scene 3, they greet Macbeth with a prophecy that he shall be king, and his companion, Banquo, with a prophecy that he shall generate a line of kings. The prophecies have great impact upon ...
Peliades (Ancient Greek: Πελιάδες) is the earliest known tragedy by Euripides; he entered it into the Dionysia of 455 BC but did not win. [1] In Greek mythology , the Peliades were the daughters of Pelias .
In 1040, Duncan I had been killed in battle by Macbeth. [1] Duncan's son Malcolm was forced to seek safety in England. Fifteen years later, Malcolm avenged the death of his father at the Battle of Lumphanan, in which Macbeth was killed. Lulach, Macbeth's step-son, succeeded to the throne of Scotland briefly before he too died at Malcolm's hands ...
Absyrtus was the son of Aeëtes, king of Colchis and a brother of Medea and Chalciope.His mother is variously given: Hyginus calls her Ipsia, [3] Hesiod and the Bibliotheca call her Idyia, [4] Apollonius calls her Asterodeia, a Caucasian Oceanid [5] and others Hecate, [6] [7] the Nereid Neaera [8] [9] or Eurylyte.
In Greek mythology, Idomeneus (/ aɪ ˈ d ɒ m ɪ n i ə s /; [1] Greek: Ἰδομενεύς) was a Cretan king and commander who led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War, in eighty black ships. [2] He was also one of the suitors of Helen, as well as a comrade of the Telamonian Ajax. Meriones was his charioteer and brother-in-arms.