medea in English

noun
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a sorceress, daughter of Aeetes king of Colchis, who helped Jason to obtain the Golden Fleece and married him. When Jason deserted her for Creusa, the daughter of King Creon of Corinth, she took revenge by killing Creon, Creusa, and her own children, and fled to Athens.

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1. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce.

2. The story of Medea, in particular, caught the imagination of the tragic poets.

3. MEDEA+ is planning on helping European manufacturers develop this advanced technology and applications expertise.

4. 30 Borrowing thematically from Medea, this world premier unfolds as she attempts to derail the wedding, prompting Cortez to vow revenge.

5. CODEPINK Cofounder Medea Benjamin said the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated for the Pentagon does not help combat the array of crises …

6. The Airbrush Company Ltd is the UK distributor of Iwata Airbrushes and compressors, Medea, Zazzo, Artool, LifeColor Wilder, Alclad II and Premi-Air products

7. Zuken's project is part of MEDEA+, a programme supported by the EUREKA network that promotes advanced cooperative research and development in microelectronics.

8. Cherubini’s Medea was another Callas signature role – for some, the Greek soprano was the very epitome of the unhinged, slighted wife and mother

9. Jason appeared in various literary works in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica and the tragedy Medea.

10. The Argonauts, with Jason as admiral, put to sea from Iolcus, and after several adventures came to Colchis, fetched the Golden Fleece, and came back with the king's daughter, Medea, whom Jason married.

11. Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets , with two exceptions: his lost Medea , whose two fragments are in iambic trimeter and anapest s, respectively, and his great Metamorphoses, which he wrote in dactylic hexameter , the meter of Virgil 's Aeneid and Homer 's epics.

12. "Aeaean" was an epithet of Circe and her niece Medea (Αἰαίη), who were the sister and daughter of Aeëtes, the ruler of Aea (Αἶα) in Colchis Circe's son Telegonus is likewise given this epithet.

13. His male contemporaries were frequently shocked by the 'heresies' he put into the mouths of characters, such as these words of his heroine Medea: Sooner would I stand Three times to face their battles, shield in hand, Than bear one child!

14. Animalises Medea "I've already seen her glaring at them like a bull" Betrayal of women leads to catastrophic circumstances "Wrong a woman in love and nothing on earth has a heart more murderous" Medea's intentions in murdering her children

15. Among those who Athetize all of the last twenty-five lines (1056-1080), one reason for rejecting the last three lines (1078-1080) is that they introduce a significant theme which is 1 For discussion of Medea as a traditional heroic character see E

16. Admetus 1 wished to marry Alcestis, one of the daughters of King Pelias 1 of Iolcus, successor of Cretheus 1.This Pelias 1 is the same who bade Jason, captain of the ARGONAUTS, to go in quest of the Golden Fleece.About his daughters, it is told that they were persuaded by Medea (after the return of the ARGONAUTS to Iolcus) to make mincemeat of their