medea characters Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/medea-characters Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Medea, Queen of Corinth http://toursmaps.com/medea-queen-of-corinth.html http://toursmaps.com/medea-queen-of-corinth.html#respond Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245676 The story of Jason, sent from Iolcus to retrieve the Golden Fleece, and his wife Medea, also unfolds in Corinth. In the most well-known version, shortly afer their return to Greece the couple were exiled to this city with their two sons, when Medea engineered the death of Jason’s uncle, the gullible Pelias, at the hands of his own daughters. But in Corinth, King Creon offered Jason his daughter Glauce’s hand in marriage. To the now-destitute hero, it seemed a golden opportunity. Soon it was the talk of Corinth – in his tragedy Medea, Euripides describes old men gossiping about

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