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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 ...
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.
In Greek mythology, Phineus [1] (/ ˈ f ɪ n iː ə s, ˈ f ɪ n. j uː s /; Ancient Greek: Φινεύς, romanized: Phineús Ancient Greek: [pʰiː.neǔs]), was a king of Salmydessus in Thrace [2] and seer, who appears in accounts of the Argonauts' voyage. [3] Some accounts make him a king in Paphlagonia [4] or in Arcadia. [5]
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.
Acastus's wife (variously named in mythology; often Astydamia, but sometimes Hippolyte, daughter of Cretheus) [2] fell in love with Peleus but he scorned her. Bitter, she sent a messenger to Antigone, Peleus's wife and daughter of Eurytion, to tell her that Peleus was to marry Acastus's daughter, Sterope.
Pelias, king of Iolcos, stops on the steps of a temple as he recognises young Jason by his missing sandal; Roman fresco from Pompeii, 1st century AD. Pelias (/ ˈ p iː l i æ s / PEE-lee-ass; Ancient Greek: Πελίας) was king of Iolcus in Greek mythology. He was the one who sent Jason on the quest for the Golden Fleece.