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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]
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 heroine of the play is the sorceress Médée.After Médée gives Jason twin boys, Jason leaves her for Creusa.Médée exacts her revenge on her husband by burning his new spouse and slitting the throats of her two children.
Idomeneus was the son of Deucalion and Cleopatra, [4] [5] grandson of King Minos and king of Crete and Queen Pasiphaë, thus tracing his line from Helios the sun god. [6] He was husband of Meda by whom she became the mother of Orsilochus, [7] Cleisithyra, Iphiclus and Lycus.
Chalciope supposedly persuaded Medea to help Jason because her sons were rescued in the island of Dia by the Argonauts after they were shipwrecked. [11] The following recounts the encounter between Chalciope and her sons after their rescue by the heroes of the Argo: [12]. . . And she (i.e. Chalciope), beholding her sons among them, raised her ...
Medea is centered on Medea's calculated desire for revenge against her unfaithful husband. Medea is of divine descent and had the gift of prophecy. 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 ...
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Son of Laomedon, husband of Hecuba, and last king of Troy. XI: 758, XII; 607, XIII: 99-519, XIV: 474, XV: 437 [203] Procne: Daughter of Pandion, wife of Tereus, sister of Philomela, and mother of Itys. She feeds Itys to Tereus after he has raped Philomela and cut out her tongue. She was metamorphosed into a bird along with her sister and husband.