Maria Callas Medea

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Maria Callas as Medea based on the ancient myth of Medea. Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts. Medea plays the archetypal role of helper-maiden, aiding Jason in his search for the Golden Fleece by using her magic to save his life, and killing her brother to allow him to escape. Once he has finished his quest, she abandons her native home of Colchis, and flees westwards with Jason, where they eventually settle in Corinth and marry. Euripides’s 5th-century BCE tragedy Medea depicts the ending of her union with Jason, when after ten years of marriage, Jason intends to abandon her to wed King Creon’s daughter Creusa. Jason argues that their sons will have a better future in the city if he marries the King’s daughter and his sons stay in the same city with Jason. Medea is offered refuge elsewhere which she refuses. In revenge, Medea murders Creusa with poisoned gifts. She later murders her own sons before fleeing to Athens,^[3] where she eventually marries king Aegeus.