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Medea takes her son's bodies as a final act of revenge against her husband, Jason. By killing their children, she ensures that Jason will suffer the same pain and loss that she has experienced, ultimately destroying him emotionally. This extreme action also serves as a way for Medea to assert a sense of control and power over her circumstances.
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Did Medea kill her sons?
She killed both her sons (or often said to be three).
What was Medea's quest?
Medea's assists Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece. In order to wrest his throne from his uncle, he was compelled to attempt the quest. In exchange for Medea's assistance, Jason promises to marry her. Although Jason has two sons with Medea, he abandons her for King Creon's daughter.
How does Medea figure in these events?
Jason leaves Medea for the princess, so Medea takes revenge on Jason by poisoning his bride-to-be, and the King who tries to save his dying daughter. Medea then proceeds to slaughtering the children that she and Jason given birth to, and rides off in a dragon-pulled chariot with the corpses of her sons.
Medea was famous for what?
Medea was not a Goddess. Apollo the sun god was one of her ancestors, making her only partly divine. Medea was however a priestess of the Goddess Hecate (the goddess of magic and witch craft).
When was The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons created?
The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons was created in 1789.
What are Medea's plans at the end of the story?
She plans to take her sons away to give them a proper burial far away from the people who would harm them. She plans to live with a man that she has met on her previous journey with Jason.
Did Jason the greek hero have children?
Yes, he had two sons with his first wife the witch Medea, but when he betrayed her she murdered them to get revenge.
What year did Medea take place?
in 431 b.c
What were Jason's flaws?
Jason was hubristic and manipulative. He used Medea to get the Fleece, but then abandoned her at her great expense. Unfortuntely, the gods were on Medea's side, even though they had been on Jason's originally, and he paid the price for this--his sons were killed (in some accounts by Medea, in others by angry townspeople) and he died an old man alone.
Is one of the myths regarding Medea is that she cooked her children and served them to Jason?
When Medea killed Jason's (of the Argonauts) wife, she sent her sons to give her the cursed robe that killed the young bride. She saw that there was no safety for her sons, so she killed them and then escaped. (Edith Hamilton's Mythology Part 2 Chapter 3) It does not say that she boiled them.
How is medea capable of killing her sons?
In Corinth, Jason abandoned Medea for the king's daughter, Glauce.According to the tragic poet Euripides, Medea murdered her two children by Jason.Before the fifth century BC there seems to have been two variants of the myth's conclusion. According to the 7th-century BC poet Eumelus, Medea killed her children by accident.The poet Creophylus, however, blamed their murders on the citizens of Corinth. Medea's deliberate murder of her children, is Euripides' invention which later writers copied.
Who is the protagonist in Medea?
medea
