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Nadai

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That's horrible what Medea did! :eek: I don't remember the story of Jason very well; does she ever get her come-uppance?

E. M.
A piece of the story of King Pelias' murder.

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[4.52.1] Medea then, the story relates, when night had come and Pelias had fallen asleep, informed the daughters that it was required that the body of Pelias be boiled in a cauldron. But when the maidens received the proposal with hostility, she devised a second proof that what she said could be believed. For there was a ram full of years which was kept in their home, and she announced to the maidens that she would first boil it and thus make it into a lamb again.
[4.52.2] When they agreed to this, we are told that Medea severed it apart limb by limb, boiled the ram’s body, and then, working a deception by means of certain drugs, she drew out of the cauldron an image which looked like a lamb. Thereupon the maidens were astounded, and were so convinced that they had received all possible proofs that she could do what she was promising that they carried out her orders. All the rest of them beat their father to death, but Alcestis alone, because of her great piety, would not lay hands upon him who had begotten her.
[4.52.3] After Pelias had been slain in this way, Medea, they say, took no part in cutting the body to pieces or in boiling it, but pretending that she must first offer prayers to the moon, she caused the maidens to ascend with lamps to the highest part of the roof of the palace, while she herself took much time repeating a long prayer in the Colchian speech, thus affording an interval to those who were to make the attack.
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Medea's jealousy when Jason decided he wanted a divorce...
the son of Medea brought to the bride gifts which had been anointed with poisons, and that when Glaucê took them and put them about her body both she herself met her end and her father, when he ran to help her and embraced her body, likewise perished.

[4.54.7] Although Medea had been successful in her first undertakings, yet she did not refrain, so we are told, from taking her revenge upon Jason. For she had come to such a state of rage and jealousy, yes, even of savageness, that, since he had escaped from the peril which threatened him at the same time as his bride, she determined, by the murder of the children of them both, to plunge him into the deepest misfortunes; for, except for the one son who made his escape from her, she slew the other sons and in company with her most faithful maids fled in the dead of night from Corinth and made her way safely to Heracles in Thebes. Her reason for doing so was that Heracles had acted as a mediator in connection with the agreements which had been entered into in the land of the Colchians and had promised to come to her aid if she should ever find them violated.
[4.55.1] Meanwhile, they go on to say, in the opinion of everyone Jason, in losing children and wife, had suffered only what was just; consequently, being unable to endure the magnitude of the affliction, he put an end to his life.
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I have no clue how Medea died. She actually lived a pretty busy and cushy life after destroying Jason's life. She went and married a king, Aegeus, and gave him a son, but then was exiled for poisoning someone (apparently she couldn't kick the habit). She then went to Asia where she married another king and had a son, Medus, who became a very loved and powerful man. But she was a mega-powerful witch and her own sister (in some myths aunt) Circe was the goddess of witchcraft and her dad was the sun god so I'd say she was kind of untouchable. Not only because she had such powerful family members but because anyone who pissed her off wouldn't have lasted very long. Not only was she powerful and beautiful, but she was intelligent and conniving... so pretty bad ass.
 

Alejandro

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That's horrible what Medea did! :eek: I don't remember the story of Jason very well; does she ever get her come-uppance?
Acastus succeeded his father Pelias as king of Iolcus, and upon his accession he exiled Jason and Medea from the city. From at least one perspective, Pelias' death was revenge for his having caused the death of Jason' parents.
I have no clue how Medea died. ... She went and married a king, Aegeus, and gave him a son, but then was exiled for poisoning someone (apparently she couldn't kick the habit). She then went to Asia where she married another king and had a son, Medus, who became a very loved and powerful man.
The son that Medea bore to Aegeus is supposed in one version to be Medus. In the version where Medus' father is some unnamed Asian king, she does not bear Aegeus any children. Medus, by the way, is supposedly the founder of the empire of the Medes, or he's their ancestor. Medea was exiled from Attica for attempting to poison Aegeus' elder (or only) son Theseus when he first came to Athens. Her death is never mentioned because she was granted immortality (or she was born immortal, since as far as I can tell, 100% of her ancestry consists of deities) and was eventually settled in Elysium, where she was married to the dead Achilles, who in one version also makes it to the Blessed Islands. There was even a cult of Medea in which she was honoured with the worship due to minor Greek divinities.
 
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Nadai

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Acastus succeeded his father Pelias as king of Iolcus, and upon his accession he exiled Jason and Medea from the city. From at least one perspective, Pelias' death was revenge for his having caused the death of Jason' parents.The son that Medea bore to Aegeus is supposed in one version to be Medus. In the version where Medus' father is some unnamed Asian king, she does not bear Aegeus any children. Medus, by the way, is supposedly the founder of the empire of the Medes, or he's their ancestor. Medea was exiled from Attica for attempting to poison Aegeus' elder (or only) son Theseus when he first came to Athens. Her death is never mentioned because she was granted immortality (or she was born immortal, since as far as I can tell, 100% of her ancestry consists of deities) and was eventually settled in Elysium, where she was married to the dead Achilles, who in one version also makes it to the Blessed Islands. There was even a cult of Medea in which she was honoured with the worship due to minor Greek divinities.
There are always so many versions to a myth. Guess that's what made poets back then so amazing. They were all able to give myths their own interpretations.

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"Here, as some say, she married Aegeus and gave birth to Medus, who was later king of Media, but certain writers give the account that, when her person was demanded by Hippotes, the son of Creon, she was granted a trial and cleared of the charges he raised against her.
After this, when Theseus returned to Athens from Troezen, a charge of poisoning was brought against her and she was exiled from the city; but by the gift of Aegeus she received an escort to go with her to whatever country she might wish and she came to Phoenicia."

According to another myth...

"she journeyed into the interior regions of Asia and married a certain king of renown, to whom she bore a son Medus; and the son, succeeding to the throne after the death of the father, was greatly admired for his courage and named the people Medes after himself."
According to Diodorus
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Maybe she married both. Maybe she only married one. I guess we'll never know;)
 

Myrddin

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Acastus succeeded his father Pelias as king of Iolcus, and upon his accession he exiled Jason and Medea from the city. From at least one perspective, Pelias' death was revenge for his having caused the death of Jason' parents.
For what she did, that's not much of a come-uppance. What she needs is her limbs tied to four diffrent sled dog teams and have someone yell "Mush". But that might be a bit of an overreaction. :) (Paraphrasing from The Big Bang Theory, there. One hell of an excellent show!)

E. M.
 

Nadai

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For what she did, that's not much of a come-uppance. What she needs is her limbs tied to four diffrent sled dog teams and have someone yell "Mush". But that might be a bit of an overreaction. :) (Paraphrasing from The Big Bang Theory, there. One hell of an excellent show!)

E. M.
Not too much of an overreaction. Witches didn't used to get it very good, that's for sure. I mean not in Ancient Greece, but for someone like her, it seems like it'd have been passable... in my opinion.
 
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