![]() ![]() However, for all its self-consciousness and researched archaic vocabulary, the late epic was based on very old, scattered materials. ![]() Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, a myth known best from a late literary version worked up by Apollonius of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC and called the Argonautica. Jason, Perseus, Theseus, and above all Heracles, are all "liminal" figures, poised on the threshold between the old world of shamans, chthonic earth deities, and the new Bronze Age Greek ways. The myths involving Jason have been interpreted as part of a class of myths that tell how the Hellenes of the distant heroic age, before the Trojan War, faced the challenges of the pre-Greek "Pelasgian" cultures of mainland Greece, the Aegean and Anatolia. Ozsolak, Sarah Scott, Jack Vaughan) In front of Medea’s house in Corinth. ![]() The play tells of Medea avenging her husband's betrayal by slaying their children. Coleridge, revised by Roger Ceragioli, further revised by Gregory Nagy Newly revised by the Hour 25 Kosmos Society Medea Heroization Team (Jessica Eichelburg, Hlne Emeriaud, Claudia Filos, Janet M. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce. Medea In Greek mythology, Medea was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. ![]()
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