Medea’s father Aeetes the King of Colchis was the son of Helios and Perseis (sometimes known as Persa or Antiope) and the brother of Circe, Pasiphae and Perses. He had three children. Two daughters; Medea and Chalciope and one son Absyrtus. He was married to Idyia (sometimes known as Eidyia). After the Golden Fleece was stolen by Jason and Medea; Aeetes was expelled from his kingdom by his brother Perses but was eventually restored by Medea.
Medea’s mother Idyia was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She was an Okeanid-nymph and presumably the Naiad of the main well or fountain of Colchis. It was not uncommon in Greek mythology for Kings to marry the local Naiad.
After Medusa's affair with Poseidon she got pregnant with two children, Pegasus a winged horse, and Chrysaor, he of the Golden sword. They were sprang from Medusa's neck when Perseus cut her head. This myth of Medusa and Perseus is one of the most famous ones. Perseus was the
In Euripides’ Medea, Medea is very furious because Juno left her and her children to remarry the princess. Medea does not accept the betrayal and demands punishment for leaving her after all she has done for him. Creon is aware “I’m afraid of you. You could hurt my daughter, even kill her. Every indication points that way”(793). Medea knew she was going to exile and pretended to be a victim and swore that all she said was just out of anger. Little did the king know that she had a vicious plan to kill his daughter and Creon as well. Medea indeed got what she wanted. She obtained revenged by killing her children on top of the bride and the king.“Forget your children. Afterward you’ll grieve. For even if you kill them, they were yours; you loved them. I’m a woman cursed by fortune”(817). This shows how woman did not have power over their children. Medea’s husband was the owner and that’s why she killed them because her children were not in reality hers, she just gave birth to them.
First, we will look at the motive in this case. What could have possible motivated Medea to murder her children? Medea has been scorned by her husband, Jason, who left her for another woman (Puchner 529). You see, Creon has arranged for Jason to marry his daughter (Puchner 529). Jason, believing this would be the best decision he could make for his children, accepted Creon’s offer (Puchner 543). Medea could be heard wailing and crying out in rage from this betrayal (Puchner 532). So, Medea decides to break her husband’s heart, as he had broken hers, by killing their sons (Puchner 548). She could have easily left, after being exiled by Creon, and started a new life for herself and her children (Puchner 535). In a time where Medea could have
these stories the Olympian gods in the stories play important roles that affect the lives of both Jason and Medea. The behaviors of these two character also have a great contrast between them. In the story of “Jason and the Golden Fleece”, Jason is the son of Aeson who is the legitimate king of Iolcus, in Thessaly. Aeson’s half brother Pelias steals the throne away from Aeson making himself the new king of Iolcus. Jason is the rightful heir to the thrown but his father feared for his life and sent him to live with the centaur Cheiron. In time Jason wanted to know of his parents and wanted to reclaim the royal
With Medea committing treason in her land, her new home is Corinth, even though is the home of Jason. Greek looks down upon people that are not Greek as savage, they exclude them from the rest of society to show how they are less superior to Greeks. Medea is secluded for the rest of Corinth , because she is a Colchian. Early in the novel King Creon goes to Medea's house and tells her how he fears for his daughter's life. He banished Medea out of fear of her power and he doesn't know how far she will go to exact her revenge against Jason. King Creon forces Medea to leave, "'Medea, I order you to leave my territories an exile, and take along with your two children'", again we see Medea lose her home (10). Creon claims "I order you to leave",
In Medea, a play by Euripides, Jason possesses many traits that lead to his downfall. After Medea assists Jason in his quest to get the Golden Fleece, killing her brother and disgracing her father and her native land in the process, Jason finds a new bride despite swearing an oath of fidelity to Medea. Medea is devastated when she finds out that Jason left her for another woman after two children and now wants to banish her. Medea plots revenge on Jason after he gives her one day to leave. Medea later acts peculiarly as a subservient woman to Jason who is oblivious to the evil that will be unleashed and lets the children remain in Corinth. The children later deliver a poisoned gown to Jason’s new bride that also kills the King of Corinth.
is hereditary in Athenian times “INSERT QUOTE”. In her acquisition of dominance, the children are used as a leverage in the vengeance against her perpetrator, Jason. Unable to identify with her offspring of a perceived patriarchal continuance, Medea struggles to see worth in them, keeping them alive would force her to continue her role as a mother, hence maintaining the clichéd Grecian wife which she previously upheld. Jason also seeks to narrow the debate about Medea’s lamenting, focussing on her personal grievances and sexual jealousy, in attempt to try and characterize Medea [presumably to the Grecian audience] as a nuisance and nothing more than a part of the inferior gender. Whereas Medea has appealed to the women of Corinth on matters associated to the intolerable status of women. Downplaying the enormity of Medea’s pain Jason claims “you thought that reason enough to murder them, that
Medea is the tragic story of a woman desperate for revenge upon her husband, after he betrayed her for another woman’s bed. It was written by Euripides, a Greek playwright, in 431 B.C. Throughout the play each character shows us their inconsistent and contradicting personalities, in particular, Jason and Medea. The play opens with the Nurse expressing her anxiety about Jason betraying and leaving Medea for another, wealthier, woman. Our initial reaction is to feel empathetic towards Medea, who has been abandoned so conveniently. But towards the end of the play, when Medea takes revenge on
Medusa’s family is made if many monsters. Her parents, gods and godess of the sea, they were Phorcys and Ceyto. Phorcys was said to have claws for legs and red scales for skin. With Poseidon Medusa had two kids, Choysar and Pegasas. She was also one of three daughters, Sthenno and Euryale. One reason she’s known is because of her strange family, but she is the only one mainly talked.
She helped him in every way possible in his quest for the Golden Fleece, “Her heart on fire with passionate love for Jason... But now there’s hatred everywhere. Love is diseased.” (1) However, in a tragedy, the hero is supposed to make a single mistake which ultimately leads to their downfall. In this case, Medea is not a heroic character as she is a sorceress, murders her brother, and her own children. The hamartia is intended to bring down a character of high morality, but Medea can be viewed as a wholly evil character who is not guided by any moral principles. She is also manipulative and deceptive in the way that she treats the men around her, Creon, Aegeus, and Jason, while involving them in her plan for revenge. Euripides has shown this aspect of her personality through lines such as “Do you think that I would have fawned on that man unless I had some end to gain or profit in it?” (12) and “by a trick I may kill the king’s daughter” (25)
Before Medusa was cursed by Athena she was a golden-haired, fair maiden, who, devoted her life to a life of celibacy as a priestess of Athena. Medusa was a beautiful young woman who Poseidon fell in love with. Poseidon was
Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus, the king that married his own mother, Locaste and unwittingly killed his father, Laios. When he learned what he had done, he blinded himself and left Thebes, voluntarily went into self-style exile and died over there. Antigone and Ismene are siblings, the only surviving children of Oedipus. The other two brothers Polyneices and Eteocles quarreled and killed each other in a battle when Polyneices returned to assault Thebes, then Creon, Antigone uncle became the king of Thebes being the only heir in line to the throne. Creon ordered Polyneices be left to rot unburied on the battle field as a traitor but Antigone could not see reason to let her brothers body rot unburied. Antigone
Both Fifth century B.C. playwright Euripides and Roman poet and dramatist Ovid tell the story of Jason ditching Medea for another woman; however, they do not always share a perspective on the female matron's traits, behavior, and purpose. Euripides portrays a woman who reacts to injustice by beginning a crusade to avenge all who harmed her which she is prepared to see through even if it means resorting to the most contemptible methods. Ovid, on the other hand, tells of a much less extreme figure whose humble goal is only to persuade Jason to return. Despite these differences, both Medeas create trouble by acting with emotions instead of with reason, and as a result, put
Creon continues by telling Medea that he has heard of plans she has made to harm him, his daughter, and Jason and is exiling her
In Medea, a woman betrays her homeland because of her love for a man. Jason is the husband that she ferociously loves and makes sacrifices for. They have two children together: Antigone and Ismeme. In Jason's quest for the golden fleece, Medea assists him in multiple ways. One of the things she does to help their cause is bring