Greek mythology
Medea
Sorceress-princess whose love turns to vengeance
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Parents
- Aeetes
- Group
- Heroes · Mortal · Trickster · Love
- Appears in
- Jason and Medea · Theseus
- Places
- Colchis
- Objects
- Golden Fleece
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Medea is the granddaughter of the sun and a sorceress of fearsome power, who betrays her father and kills her own brother to help Jason win the Golden Fleece. When he later casts her aside to wed a princess, her love curdles into a vengeance so terrible she murders his bride and their own children. Brilliant and pitiless, she escapes in a chariot drawn by dragons, beyond the reach of any justice.
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Jason and Medea
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- Who is Medea?
- Medea is the granddaughter of the sun and a sorceress of fearsome power, who betrays her father and kills her own brother to help Jason win the Golden Fleece. When he later casts her aside to wed a princess, her love curdles into a vengeance so terrible she murders his bride and their own children.
- Which mythology does Medea belong to?
- Medea belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Medea appear in?
- Medea appears in Jason and Medea, Theseus, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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