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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]
A scholium to line 264 of the play suggests that Medea's children were traditionally killed by the Corinthians after her escape; [8] so Euripides' apparent invention of the filicide might have offended, as his first treatment of the Hippolytus myth did. [9]
Medea is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of about 1027 lines of verse written by Seneca the Younger. It is generally considered to be the strongest of his earlier plays. [ 1 ] It was written around 50 CE.
The story of Medea's revenge on Jason is told with devastating effect by Euripides in his tragedy Medea. William Morris wrote an English epic poem, The Life and Death of Jason , published in 1867. In the 1898 short novel The Story of Perseus and the Gorgon's Head the mythical story of Jason is described.
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]
Medea tried to have Theseus killed by encouraging Aegeus to ask him to capture the Marathonian Bull, but Theseus succeeded. She tried to poison him, but at the last second, Aegeus recognized his son and knocked the poisoned cup out of Theseus' hand. Father and son were thus reunited, and Medea was sent away to Asia. [27] Theseus departed for Crete.
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.
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.