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Medea

Medea. BY Euripides. Mrs Novak, 2011. Jason, The Argonauts, the search for the Golden Fleece and Medea. Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, and the granddaughter of Helios , the sun god . . She was one of the great sorceresses of the ancient world.

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Medea

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  1. Medea BY Euripides Mrs Novak, 2011

  2. Jason, The Argonauts, the search for the Golden Fleece and Medea

  3. Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, and the granddaughter of Helios, the sun god.

  4. She was one of the great sorceresses of the ancient world.

  5. King Aeetes' most valuable possession was a golden ram's fleece.

  6. When Jasonarrived at Colchis seeking the Golden Fleece, Aeetesset Jason a series of seemingly impossible tasks as the price of obtaining it.

  7. Medea fell in love with Jason and agreed to use her magic to help him, in return for Jason's promise to marry her.

  8. Medea took Jason to where the fleece hung on the oak-tree, guarded by a huge dragon.

  9. Medea put a spell on the dragon, and Jason easily stole the fleece from the tree.

  10. Jason & Medea fled in the Argo with the golden fleece. They took Medea’s younger brother, Absyrtis, with them.

  11. King Aeetes pursued them. In order to delay the pursuit, Medea killed her brother and cut his body into pieces, scattering the parts behind the ship.

  12. The pursuers had to stop and collect Absyrtis' dismembered body in order to give it proper burial.

  13. So Jason, Medea and the Argonauts escaped.

  14. After the Argo returned safely to Iolcus, Jason's home, Medea continued using her sorcery. • She restored the youth of Jason's aged father, Aeson, by cutting his throat and filling his body with a magical potion.

  15. She then offered to do the same for Pelias the king of Iolcuswho had usurped Aeson'sthrone.

  16. She tricked Pelias' daughters into killing him, but left the corpse without any youth-restoring potion.

  17. After the murder of Pelias, Jason and Medea had to flee Iolcus; they settled next in Corinth.

  18. There Medea bore Jason two children before Jason forsook her in order to marry the daughter of Creon, the king of Corinth.

  19. Medea got revenge for Jason's desertion by killing the new bride with a poisoned robe and crown which burned the flesh from her body.

  20. King Creon died as well when he tried to embrace his dying daughter.

  21. Medea then killed her own children to get the ultimate revenge against Jason.

  22. Medea fled Corinth in a chariot, drawn by winged dragons. She took with her the bodies of her two children.

  23. The End

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