Medea tried to have Theseus killed by encouraging Aegeus to ask him to capture the Marathonian Bull, but Theseus succeeded.

Aegeus's wife Medea recognized Theseus immediately as Aegeus ' son and worried that Theseus would be chosen as heir to Aegeus ' kingdom instead of her son Medus.

When Theseus returned victorious to Athens, where he sacrificed the Bull, Medea tried to poison him.

Both statements are inconsistent with Medea being Aegeus ' wife by the time Theseus first came to Athens.

Determined to preserve her own son's inheritance, Medea convinced her husband that Theseus was a threat and that he should be disposed of.

* In Greek mythology, Medea attempted to poison Theseus with a cup of wine poisoned with wolfsbane.

* Theseus being on the list is inconsistent with accounts of his life usually including him encountering Medea at an early stage of his adventures, yet many years after the Argonauts completed their adventure ( Medea, by that time, was not only abandoned by Jason, but also bore a child from Aegeus ).

Jason's helper in the Athenian vase-paintings is not Medea — who had an untoward history in Athens as the opponent of Theseus — but Athena.

In Greek and Roman mythology, Medea tried to kill Theseus by poisoning him by putting aconite in his wine, in that culture thought to be the saliva of Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guarded the Underworld.

But his aged father Aigeus, who fears the powerful young king ( whom he quite fails to recognise as his son ), would have poisoned Theseus on the urging of his lover Medea, who wants the Athenian throne for her sons.

Medea: King Aigeus's lover, she wants the Athenian throne for her two sons and persuades Aigeus to poison Theseus.

Some characters such as Medea and Theseus are able to occasionally make accurate prophecies due to the unseen work of some god, or the use of magic.

Medea took her revenge by sending Glauce a dress and golden coronet, covered in poison.

She was killed, along with her father, by Medea, who either sent her a peplos steeped in inflammable poison or set fire to the royal palace.

When facing the giant Talos, some accounts say Medea drugged the bronze giant and Poeas shot an arrow to poison him in his heel.

Offstage, while Medea ponders her actions, Glauce is killed by the poisoned dress, and Creon is also killed by the poison while attempting to save her.

Upon his return to Athens, Aegeus married Medea, who had fled from Corinth and the wrath of Jason.

Aegeus and Medea had one son named Medus.

Sophocles ' tragedy Aegeus has been lost, but Aegeus features in Euripides ' Medea.

In Athens, Aegeus was joined by Medea, who had fled Corinth after slaughtering the children she had borne Jason, and had taken Aegeus as her new consort.

Medus, Aegeus ' only other son ( by Medea of Colchis ), had been exiled in Asia and would become legendary ancestor to the Medes.

Next Medea is visited by Aegeus, King of Athens ; he is aggrieved by his lack of children, and does not understand the oracle that was supposed to give him guidance.

Aegeus does not know what Medea is going to do in Corinth, but promises to give her refuge in any case, provided she can escape to Athens.

* Teseo, Handel with Derek Lee Ragin as Egeo ( Aegeus ); Jeni Bern as Medea.

Apollonius of Rhodes, in the Argonautica mentions that Medea was taught by Hecate, " I have mentioned to you before a certain young girl whom Hecate, daughter of Perses, has taught to work in drugs.

The first relates the adventures of a knight who married the young duchess of Calabria, niece of King Meleager of Sicily, but was loved by Medea, the king's wife.

Even very young children would play with hoops, a fact immortalized by Euripides in his play Medea, in which the two young sons meet their death at their mother's hands as they return from driving hoops.

Of the Medea we may form some notion from paintings found at Pompeii, representing that heroine standing with a sheathed sword.

So Medea conspired to have Pelias ' own daughters kill him.

Medea conspired to have Pelias ' own daughters ( Peliades ) kill him.

Aeëtes pursued them in his own ship as they fled, but Medea distracted her father by killing and dismembering her brother, Apsyrtus, and throwing pieces of his cadaver overboard.

480 – 406 BCE ) whose play Medea seems to have offended Athenian audiences when he fictionally speculated that shamaness Medea killed her own children instead of their being killed by other Corinthians after her departure, and whose Hippolytus, narratively introduced by Aphrodite, Goddess of Love in person, is suspected to have displeased his contemporary audiences because he portrayed Phaedra as too lusty.

Medea killing her own brother, Absyrtus, to help Jason and the Argonauts escape is omitted from the film, as are the episodes with Cyzicus and the Gegeines and the Argonauts ' stay on the isle of Lemnos.

Medea resolves to kill her own children as well, not because the children have done anything wrong, but because she feels it is the best way to hurt Jason.

Medea is pleased with her revenge thus far, but resolves to carry it further: to utterly destroy Jason's plans for a new family, she will kill her own sons.

Inspired by Euripides ' Medea, L ' Enfer explores the lives of three sisters, " each locked in her own unhappiness, nursing a secret flower of misery, the seed for which was planted by their late father with a terrible incident in their girlhood " ( from a review by Peter Bradshaw ).

She also inspired Kentucky painter Thomas Satterwhite Noble's 1867 painting, The Modern Medea ; Medea was a woman in Greek mythology who killed her own children.

The vision in the third year of Belshazzar concerning a ram and a male goat ( 8: 1-27 ) which, we are informed, represent Medea, Persia ( the ram's two horns ), and Greece ( the goat ).

In 425 BC, which is about the time that Herodotus is thought by many scholars to have died, the Athenian comic dramatist, Aristophanes, created The Acharnians, in which he blames The Peloponnesian War on the abduction of some prostitutes-a mocking reference to Herodotus, who reported the Persians ' account of their wars with Greece, beginning with the rapes of the mythical heroines Io, Europa, Medea and Helen.

For television von Trier directed Medea ( 1988 ), which won the Jean d ' Arcy prize in France.

However, Madai then decided he didn't like the area and asked the sons of Shem to let him resettle in Medea, which was in their region.

* Seneca writes the tragedy Agamemnon, which he intends to be read as the last chapter of a trilogy including two of his other tragedies, Medea and Edipus.

Pacini's successes during this time period include La fidanzata corsa ( Naples, 1842 ), Maria, regina d ' Inghilterra ( Palermo, 1843 ), Medea ( Palermo, 1843 with several later revisions, the last of which was in Naples in 1853 ), Lorenzino de ' Medici ( Venice, 1845 ), Bondelmonte ( Florence, 1845 ), Stella di Napoli ( Naples, 1845 ) and La regina di Cipro ( Turin, 1846 ).

Medea gave him an unguent with which to anoint himself and his weapons, to protect him from the bulls ' fiery breath.

Herodotus reports another version, in which Medea and her son Medus fled from Athens to the Iranian plateau and lived among the Aryans, who then changed their name to the Medes.

The dramatic episodes in which Medea plays a role have ensured that she remains vividly represented in popular culture.

" His post-war plays dealt with similar concerns and included Roméo et Jeannette, Médée ( Medea ), and Anouilh's Joan of Arc story L ' Alouette ( The Lark ), which, in its distinct optimism, rivalled the commercial success of Antigone.

Scylax mentions also Mala or Male, which he, in contradiction to other writers, makes the birthplace of Medea.

During in an interview on Later ... with Jools Holland, Love claimed the name for the band was inspired by a quote from Euripides ' Medea which read " there's a hole that pierces my soul.

* Ovid's poem Medea, of which only two fragments survive.

But Gielgud was best known for directing productions in which he also starred, including his greatest commercial success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ), his definitive production of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939, 1942, 1947 ), Medea with Judith Anderson's Tony Award-winning performance of the title role with Gielgud supporting her as Jason ( 1947 ), The Lady's Not for Burning ( 1949 ) that won Richard Burton his first notoriety as an actor, and Ivanov ( 1965 ).

In 1838 Delacroix exhibited Medea about to Kill Her Children, which created a sensation at the Salon.

The three nude figures form an animated pyramid, bathed in a raking light which penetrates the grotto in which Medea has hidden.

In the 1990s, she had triumphs with roles at the Almeida Theatre in Islington, including Medea in 1992 ( which transferred to the Wyndham's Theatre in 1993 and then Broadway in 1994, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Actress ), Mother Courage at the National Theatre in 1995 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

His plays, of which Merope ( 1774 ), an adaptation in blank verse of the tragedies of Maffei and Voltaire, and Medea ( 1775 ), a melodrama, are best known, were mostly based on French originals and had considerable influence in counteracting the formlessness and irregularity of the Sturm und Drang drama.

He was defeated not by Jason, but by Medea casting a spell on Talos, causing him to remove the bronze nail from his ankle which kept the ichor inside.

A more frequently cited example is Euripides ' Medea in which the deus ex machina, a dragon-drawn chariot sent by the Sun-God, is used to convey his granddaughter Medea, who has just committed murder and infanticide, away from her husband Jason to the safety and civilization of Athens.