When the Greeks went to war against Troy, the stories they had on their minds were of Jason and the Argonauts. But the story of the world’s 50 greatest heroes aboard a single ship is largely the story of a woman.
Medea loved Jason so much she killed her father and brother to be with him. Jason and Medea conquered the world together and ruled over Corinth for 10 years. But when Jason left her, she pretended to take his marriage to another princess with good grace so that she could send her a crown and robe. When the princess put on the new clothes, they burned her to death, along with her father and all the wedding guests. Jason escaped by leaping from an upper window. He learned that Medea had killed the kids.
They were vastly different people, Jason and Medea, and it’s interesting to see what the mythmakers made of them after all the drama was over.
Medea was such a woman that Zeus was infatuated with her. He had his way with many women, but Medea rebuffed every advance. She had been Jason’s queen in Corinth, and she became a queen again. She did not die. She became immortal and reigned over the Elysian Fields.
Jason ended up homeless and friendless. He’d beached the Argo at the isthmus, and later in life and alone, he rested in the shade of the hulk and planned to hang himself from the prow. The hulk shifted and killed him.
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