Medea

Medea was the Princess of Colchis, the land that held the Golden Fleece during the time of the original Jason, as well as a powerful sorceress.
==History==
As a descendant of the Titan Helios, the niece of the sorceress Circe, and a priestess of the goddess Hecate, Medea was a powerful sorceress renowned for her healing skills and her proficiency in using herbs and drugs.
Medea claimed that when the original Jason was sent on a quest to find the Golden Fleece, Aphrodite made her fall deeply in love with him. Medea's father agreed to grant Jason his request, but only if he accomplished impossible and deadly tasks. Medea instructed him on how to accomplish them, only if he agreed to marry her.
Later, with the help of Medea's magic, Jason was able to steal the Golden Fleece from the king and escape. Afterwards, she defeated Talos with magic by tricking the Automaton to taking his nail out.
Jason married her upon returning to Greece, fulfilling his end of the bargain. But after the death of Jason's uncle, Pelias, Jason left her in order to marry Princess Glauce instead. Glauce (also known as Creusa) was a daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. Medea was heartbroken by Jason's betrayal and wrought a terrible revenge. She poisoned Princess Glauce and the people of Corinth. In her anger, she even murdered her two children from her marriage to Jason. Helios, her grandfather, then sent a flying chariot driven by golden sun dragons to take her away to Athens.
Other references tell a different story. After obtaining the Golden Fleece, they went to Iolcos to renew the youth of Pelias. Aeson, Jason's father, was the rightful King of Iolcos but Pelias (his half brother and a son of Poseidon) usurped the throne. He sent Jason to find the Golden Fleece so that no one would get in his way of usurping the throne, and so that he would regain his youth. Pelias assumed that Jason would die in the mission and told Aeson about his intentions. In grief, Aeson drank poison.
Unexpectedly for Pelias, Jason succeeded in the mission, with Medea's help. When Jason and Medea returned, Pelias refused to give up the throne until he dies. That was when Medea tricked Pelias' daughters into killing him: she told them to cut him up into pieces and boil the pieces, assuring them that this was for restoring their father's youth. Jason was unfaithful to Medea and sought to replace her with Princess Glauce as his new wife. Medea murdered Glauce and, to spite Jason, killed their children as well. Then she escaped to Athens.
At Athens, Medea was married to King Aegeus and had another son, Medus. One day, Theseus came to Athens. Medea recognized him as King Aegeus' son and worried that Theseus would become king instead of her son, Medus. So she sent Theseus to capture the Marathonian Bull, an emblem of Cretan power. Theseus returned victorious, and sacrificed the bull. Medea then tried to kill him by mixing poison in his wine. Just before Theseus could drink the wine, Aegeus knocked the wine cup out of his hands. Aegeus recognized Theseus as his son and successor and became aware of Medea's deceptions. Aegeus banished Medea and she supposedly fled to Asia subsequently called Media, whose inhabitants thereupon changed their name to Medes. Eventually, she died, but no one in living memory remembers how.
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